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

Other quotes by Anne Lamott

A whole lot of us believers, of all different religions, are ready to turn back the tide of madness by walking together, in both the dark and the light – in other words, through life – registering voters as we go, and keeping the faith. – Anne Lamott

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Faith
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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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Women
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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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Hope
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Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope. – Bernard Berenson

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Hope

This AIDS stuff is pretty scary. I hope I dont get it. – Robert Mapplethorpe

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Hope

I hope that through my example, such as my role on The West Wing, I can help change attitudes on deafness and prove we can really do everything… except hear. – Marlee Matlin

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Hope

Fighting a war on terrorism is like fighting against crime. We can never hope to eradicate crime, so we shouldnt bother fighting it. – Craig Bruce

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Hope

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Good decisions come from experience, and experience comes from bad decisions. – Author Unknown

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I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it. – Carl Sandburg

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We are more often frightened than hurt and we suffer more from imagination than from reality. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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Just as the largest library, badly arranged, is not so useful as a very moderate one that is well arranged, so the greatest amount of knowledge, if not elaborated by our own thoughts, is worth much less than a far smaller volume that has been abundantly and repeatedly thought over. – Arthur Schopenhauer

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