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Quote by Anne Lamott
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I got a lot of things that society had promised would make me whole and fulfilled – all the things that the culture tells you from preschool on will quiet the throbbing anxiety inside you – stature, the respect of colleagues, maybe even a kind of low-grade fame. – Anne Lamott

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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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Anne Lamott
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I woke up full of hate and fear the day before the most recent peace march in San Francisco. This was disappointing: Id hoped to wake up feeling somewhere between Virginia Woolf and Wavy Gravy. – Anne Lamott

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Fear
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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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I have two sisters and a mother, obviously, so I grew up with a household of girls. Maybe I have a greater respect for women because of it. – Hayden Christensen

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I have great respect and understanding for military commitment due to my own familys involvement with the armed forces. – Carolyn Murphy

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I think any period in history can be adapted into interesting fiction, as long as you approach the actual history with respect. – Seth Grahame-Smith

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