More quotes by Anne Lamott

"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."
"The reason I never give up hope is because everything is so basically hopeless."
"The very first thing I tell my new students on the first day of a workshop is that good writing is about telling the truth. We are a species that needs and wants to understand who we are. Sheep lice do not seem to share this longing, which is one reason they write so very little. But we do. We have so much we want to say and figure out."
"When hope is not pinned wriggling onto a shiny image or expectation, it sometimes floats forth and opens."
"I have a very dark sense of humor. I swear. I have a very playful relationship with Jesus."