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We must not inflict life on children who will be resented; we must not inflict unwanted children on society.

~Anne Lamott

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I've written six novels and four pieces of nonfiction, so I don't really have a genre these days.

~Anne Lamott

Topics: Days Four Genre Nonfiction Novels Pieces Really Six Written

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Seeing yourself in print is such an amazing concept: you can get so much attention without having to actually show up somewhere... You don't have to dress up, for instance, and you can't hear them boo you right away.

~Anne Lamott

Topics: Actually Amazing Attention Away Boo Concept Dress Get Having Hear In Print Instance Much Much Attention Print Right Right Away Seeing Show Somewhere Them Up Without You Yourself

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No one is more sentimentalized in America than mothers on Mother's Day, but no one is more often blamed for the culture's bad people and behavior.

~Anne Lamott

Topics: America Bad Bad People Behavior Blamed Culture Day More Mother Mothers Often People Than

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You want to give me chocolate and flowers? That would be great. I love them both. I just don't want them out of guilt, and I don't want them if you're not going to give them to all the people who helped mother our children.

~Anne Lamott

Topics: Both Children Chocolate Flowers Give Give Me Going Great Guilt Helped Just Love Me Mother Our Out People Them Want Who Would You I Love

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I don't want something special. I want something beautifully plain.

~Anne Lamott

Topics: Beautifully Plain Something Something Special Special Want

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I am the woman I grew to be partly in spite of my mother, and partly because of the extraordinary love of her best friends, and my own best friends' mothers, and from surrogates, many of whom were not women at all but gay men. I have loved them my entire life, even after their passing.

~Anne Lamott

Topics: After Am Because Best Entire Entire Life Even Extraordinary Friends Gay Grew Her Life Love Loved Many Men Mother Mothers My Own Own Partly Passing Spite Them Were Whom Woman Women I Am

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I'm drawn to almost any piece of writing with the words 'divine love' and 'impeachment' in the first sentence. But I know the word 'divine' makes many progressive people run screaming for their cute little lives, and so one hesitates to use it.

~Anne Lamott

Topics: Almost Any Cute Divine Divine Love Drawn First Hesitates Impeachment Know Little Lives Love Makes Many People Piece Progressive Run Screaming Sentence Use Word Words Writing

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My mother's eyes were large and brown, like my son's, but unlike Sam's, they were always frantic, like a hummingbird who can't quite find the flower but keeps jabbing around.

~Anne Lamott

Topics: Always Around Brown Eyes Find Flower Frantic Keeps Large Like Mother Quite Sam Son Unlike Were Who

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I see that children fill the existential hollowness many people feel; that when we have children, we know they will need us, and maybe love us, but we don't have a clue how hard it is going to be.

~Anne Lamott

Topics: Children Clue Existential Feel Fill Going Hard How Know Love Many Maybe Need People See Us Will I See

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: April 10th, 1954

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