Quote by Anne Lamott
When were dealing with the people in our family - no matter how an

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

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Society
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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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respect
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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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I come from a great family. Ive seen family life and I know how wonderful, how nurturing, and how wonderful it can be. – Sidney Poitier

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When you live on the road, going home is a place to escape and just be with your family to unwind. – Jonathan Davis

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There is a common theme, though, in the stories I have told, which are usually associations of characters or families that are formed outside of a family circle. – Gus Van Sant

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A person needs at intervals to separate himself from family and companions and go to new places. He must go without his familiars in order to be open to influences, to change. – Katharine Butler Hathaway

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