When I was a kid, our family used to watch ‘Bonanza.’ I really liked having a Sunday night TV ritual. Anne Lamott Read Quote
If our lives are made up of a string of a thousand moments, at some of those moments we look a lot more spiritually evolved than at others. Anne Lamott Read Quote
Being on a book tour is like being on the seesaw when you’re a little kid. The excitement is in having someone to play with, and in rising up in the air, but then you’re at the mercy of those holding you down, and if it’s your older brother, or Paul Wolfowitz, they leap up, so that you crash down and get hurt. Anne Lamott Read Quote
I’m kind of a gossip hound, but watching the media whip the small fires into giant forest fires so that they can cover the result is infuriating. Anne Lamott Read Quote
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 of prestige on the fast track, and slowly, millimeter by millimeter, I started to get found, to discover who I had been born to be, instead of the impossibly small package, all tied up tightly in myself, that I had agreed to be. Anne Lamott Read Quote
I would seriously rather be in a long line at the DMV than eat with people I don’t know. Anne Lamott Read Quote
For me, Jesus is my cleft in the rock. He is my safest friend, my safe totally loving accepting big brother. Anne Lamott Read Quote
Some people seem to understand this – that life and change take time – but I am not one of those people. Anne Lamott Read Quote
Mothering has been the richest experience of my life, but I am still opposed to Mother’s Day. It perpetuates the dangerous idea that all parents are somehow superior to non-parents. Anne Lamott Read Quote
I was raised by my parents to believe that you had a moral obligation to try and help save the world. Anne Lamott Read Quote
