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Anne Lamott
American
Author
Born:
Apr 10
,
1954
Life
Love
Me
Mother
People
You
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Most marriages are a mess, and the children get caught between two bitter, antagonistic parents. My parents stayed married for 27 unhappy years, till their kids were grown, and this was a catastrophe for us.
Anne Lamott
Unhappy
Parents
Kids
Bitter
Marriages
Married
Stayed
Catastrophe
Between
Most
Mess
Till
Caught
Antagonistic
Were
Years
Get
Children
Us
Grown
Two
I feel incredibly successful. I make a living as a writer and am able to help support a big family, my church, my bleeding-heart causes.
Anne Lamott
Family
Church
Big
Living
Incredibly
Able
Writer
Support
Feel
Make
Am
Causes
Big Family
Successful
Help
I am an Aries. Although I do not believe in astrology, I think this is exactly the right sign to have been born under.
Anne Lamott
Believe
Think
Astrology
Sign
Exactly
Born
Aries
Although
Am
Been
Right
I happen to be a Christian, but I know that there is one God. People worshipping goodness and love and kindness and truth are worshipping the same God.
Anne Lamott
Love
Truth
Kindness
God
People
Goodness
Christian
Worshipping
Know
Same
Happen
Mother's Day celebrates a huge lie about the value of women: that mothers are superior beings, that they have done more with their lives and chosen a more difficult path.
Anne Lamott
Day
Women
Lie
Mother
Path
Value
Superior
Difficult
About
More
Mothers
Huge
Done
Beings
Chosen
Lives
Mothering has been the richest experience of my life, but I am still opposed to Mother's Day. It perpetuates the dangerous idea that all parents are somehow superior to non-parents.
Anne Lamott
Life
Day
Experience
Dangerous
Mother
Superior
My Life
Parents
Has-Been
Somehow
Idea
Am
Still
Opposed
Been
Richest
Mothers are supposed to listen and, afterward, to respond with some wisdom and perspective, but these things were not my mother's strong suit.
Anne Lamott
Wisdom
Strong
Mother
Perspective
Respond
Strong Suit
Some
Supposed
Mothers
Were
Listen
Afterwards
Things
Suit
If you asked me, parents were supposed to affect the life of their child in such a way that the child grows up to be responsible, able to participate in life and in community.
Anne Lamott
Life
Me
You
Parents
Community
Way
Responsible
Able
Participate
Supposed
Were
Affect
Up
Child
Asked
Such A Way
Grows
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