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
We must not inflict life on children who will be resented we must not inflict unwanted children on society. – Anne Lamott
Some people seem to understand this – that life and change take time – but I am not one of those people. – Anne Lamott
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