Anne Lamott Quotes

Your experiences will be yours alone. But truth and best friendship will rarely if ever disappoint you. - Anne Lamott

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

When we're dealing with the people in our family - no matter how annoying or gross they may be, no matter how self-inflicted their suffering may appear, no matter how afflicted they are with ignorance, prejudice or nose hairs - we give from the deepest parts of ourselves. - Anne Lamott

When hope is not pinned wriggling onto a shiny image or expectation, it sometimes floats forth and opens. - Anne Lamott

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

We can't understand when we're pregnant, or when our siblings are expecting, how profound it is to have a shared history with a younger generation: blood, genes, humor. It means we were actually here, on Earth, for a time - like the Egyptians with their pyramids, only with children. - Anne Lamott

These days cry out, as never before, for us to pay attention, so we can move through them and get our joy and pride back. - Anne Lamott

There is nothing as sweet as a comeback, when you are down and out, about to lose, and out of time. - Anne Lamott

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