More quotes by Anne Lamott

"Your experiences will be yours alone. But truth and best friendship will rarely if ever disappoint you."
"We can't understand when we're pregnant, or when our siblings are expecting, how profound it is to have a shared history with a younger generation: blood, genes, humor. It means we were actually here, on Earth, for a time - like the Egyptians with their pyramids, only with children."
"Everyone is flailing through this life without an owner's manual, with whatever modicum of grace and good humor we can manage."
"Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up."
"You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do."