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Had Quotes by Anne Lamott
- I was raised by my parents to believe that you had a moral obligation to try and help save the world.
- The first holy truth in God 101 is that men and women of true faith have always had to accept the mystery of God's identity…
- Most of me was glad when my mother died. She was a handful, but not in a cute, festive way. More in a life-threatening way,…
- I used to love to untangle chains when I was a child. I had thin, busy fingers, and I never gave up. Perhaps there was…
- I didn't write about my mother much in the third year after she died. I was still trying to get my argument straight: When her…
- I got a lot of things that society had promised would make me whole and fulfilled - all the things that the culture tells you…
- I quit my last real job, as a writer at a magazine, when I was twenty-one. That was the moment when I lost my place…
- I wish I had thrown out the bathroom scale at age 16. Weighing yourself every morning is like waking up and asking Dick Cheney to…
- The women's movement burst forth when I was fifteen. That was when I began to believe that life might semi-work out after all. The cavalry…
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