Quote by Anne Lamott
Most of me was glad when my mother died. She was a handful, but no

Most of me was glad when my mother died. She was a handful, but not in a cute, festive way. More in a life-threatening way, that had caused me a long time ago to give up all hope of ever feeling good about having had her as a mother. – Anne Lamott

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When were 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

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Family
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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

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The worst part about celebrating another birthday is the shock that youre only as well as you are. – Anne Lamott

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Birthday
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I hope that I serve by being a teacher. – Jenna Bush

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Hope is a very unruly emotion. – Gloria Steinem

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We must rediscover the distinction between hope and expectation. – Ivan Illich

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When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield. – Quintilian

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I hope to make people realize how totally helpless animals are, how dependent on us, trusting as a child must that we will be kind and take care of their needs. – James Herriot

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You dont lead by hitting people over the head – thats assault, not leadership. – Dwight D. Eisenhower

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One of the great fallacies of our time is that the Nazis rose to power because they imposed order on chaos. Precisely the opposite is true – John Fowles

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