We must not inflict life on children who will be resented; we must not inflict unwanted children on society.

Dancing almost always turns out to be a good idea.

You have to keep taking the next necessary stitch, and the next one, and the next. Without stitches, you just have rags. And we are not rags.

Radical self-care is what we've been longing for, desperate for, our entire lives-friendship with our own hearts.

Needless to say, there was no one around remotely fitting the description of a normal person: I was at a writing conference.

Anne Lamott’s priest friend Tom, how to get through: "Left foot, right foot, left foot, breathe," he said. "Right foot, left foot, right foot, breathe." Salon April 25, 2003

I don't want something special. I want something beautifully plain.