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I've heard that our greatest cross to carry is ourselves - how gravely we fall short.

~Anne Lamott

Topics: Carry Cross Fall Greatest Heard How Our Ourselves Short

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Most marriages are a mess, and the children get caught between two bitter, antagonistic parents. My parents stayed married for 27 unhappy years, till their kids were grown, and this was a catastrophe for us.

~Anne Lamott

Topics: Antagonistic Between Bitter Catastrophe Caught Children Get Grown Kids Marriages Married Mess Most Parents Stayed Till Two Unhappy Us Were Years

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I feel incredibly successful. I make a living as a writer and am able to help support a big family, my church, my bleeding-heart causes.

~Anne Lamott

Topics: Able Am Big Big Family Causes Church Family Feel Help Incredibly Living Make Successful Support Writer I Feel

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I am an Aries. Although I do not believe in astrology, I think this is exactly the right sign to have been born under.

~Anne Lamott

Topics: Although Am Astrology Been Believe Born Exactly Right Sign Think I Think I Am

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I try to write the books I would love to come upon that are honest, concerned with real lives, human hearts, spiritual transformation, families, secrets, wonder, craziness - and that can make me laugh.

~Anne Lamott

Topics: Books Come Concerned Craziness Families Hearts Honest Human Laugh Lives Love Make Make Me Laugh Me Real Secrets Spiritual Transformation Try Wonder Would Write

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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

Topics: Cover Fires Forest Giant Gossip Hound Kind Media Result Small Watching Whip

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When I was a kid, our family used to watch 'Bonanza.' I really liked having a Sunday night TV ritual.

~Anne Lamott

Topics: Family Having Kid Liked Night Our Really Ritual Sunday Sunday Night Tv Used Watch

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I did not raise my son, Sam, to celebrate Mother's Day. I didn't want him to feel some obligation to buy me pricey lunches or flowers, some annual display of gratitude that you have to grit your teeth and endure.

~Anne Lamott

Topics: Annual Buy Celebrate Day Did Display Endure Feel Flowers Gratitude Grit Him Me Mother Obligation Raise Sam Some Son Teeth Want You Your

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Every woman's path is difficult, and many mothers were as equipped to raise children as wire monkey mothers. I say that without judgment: It is, sadly, true. An unhealthy mother's love is withering.

~Anne Lamott

Topics: Children Difficult Equipped Every Judgment Love Love Is Many Monkey Mother Mothers Path Raise Sadly Say True Unhealthy Were Wire Without Woman

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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

Topics: Am Been Dangerous Day Experience Idea Life Mother My Life Opposed Parents Richest Somehow Still Superior I Am

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: April 10th, 1954

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