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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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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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Anne Lamott
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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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When hope is not pinned wriggling onto a shiny image or expectation, it sometimes floats forth and opens. – Anne Lamott

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Hope
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Family
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People are pretty forgiving when it comes to other peoples families. The only family that ever horrifies you is your own. – Doug Coupland

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Family

In my family, we let our boys have a say in what veggie side they want for dinner that night. We list off a handful of options and get them excited about helping to plan the dinner menu. Theyre much more inclined to finish their plates when theyve helped decide what goes on them. – Cat Cora

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Family

My work and my family are very important to me. – Stephen Hawking

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Family

I had a number of very strong personalities in my family. My father was a concert flutist, the solo flute for Toscanini. – Francis Ford Coppola

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Family

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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer. – Walter Scott

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Age

Its not easy to retire at 31. In one respect I was glad I was done. But after a few years of having fun, I got a little restless. When youre 33, 34, and you dont have a focus, you can get kind of lost. As a man, you feel a little bit unfulfilled. – Pete Sampras

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respect

He who is firm in will molds the world to himself. – Johann von Goethe

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Will, Willpower

Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. – Harriet Beecher Stowe

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Time