Age has given me what I was looking for my entire life - it gave me me. It provided the time and experience and failures and triumphs and friends who helped me step into the shape that had been waiting for me all my life...I not only get along with me most of the time now, I am militantly and maternally on my own side.
Anne LamottI 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 LamottNo matter what circumstances, it's hard to be a parent and maintain a sense of self and identity in the world.
Anne LamottWhen hope is not pinned wriggling onto a shiny image or expectation, it sometimes floats forth and opens.
Anne Lamott