Anne LamottA collection of 30 posts

Women

I am the woman I grew to be partly in spite of my mother and partly because of ...

Society

We must not inflict life on children who will be resented we must not inflict un...

Respect

I got a lot of things that society had promised would make me whole and fulfille...

Hope

Most of me was glad when my mother died. She was a handful but not in a cute f...

Hope

When hope is not pinned wriggling onto a shiny image or expectation it sometime...

Hope

The reason I never give up hope is because everything is so basically hopeless.

Hope

Hope begins in the dark the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to d...

History

We can't understand when we're pregnant or when our siblings are expe...

Good

Your problem is how you are going to spend this one odd and precious life you ha...

God

You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it tur...