Anne Lamott

Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#perfectionism #voice

No one can appropriate God, goodness, the Bible or Jesus. It just seems that way. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#bible #god #goodness #jesus #just

My mother's eyes were large and brown, like my son's, but unlike Sam's, they were always frantic, like a hummingbird who can't quite find the flower but keeps jabbing around. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#around #brown #eyes #find #flower

If the present is really all we have, then the present lasts forever. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#lasts #present #really #then

If our lives are made up of a string of a thousand moments, at some of those moments we look a lot more spiritually evolved than at others. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#lives #look #lot #made #moments

I've written six novels and four pieces of nonfiction, so I don't really have a genre these days. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#four #genre #i #nonfiction #novels

I would seriously rather be in a long line at the DMV than eat with people I don't know. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#i #know #line #long #long line

I woke up full of hate and fear the day before the most recent peace march in San Francisco. This was disappointing: I'd hoped to wake up feeling somewhere between Virginia Woolf and Wavy Gravy. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#between #day #disappointing #fear #feeling

I went to Goucher College in Maryland for the best possible reasons - to learn - but then I dropped out at 19 for the best possible reasons - to become a writer. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#best #college #dropped #i #learn

I went to church with my grandparents sometimes and I loved it. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#grandparents #i #loved #sometimes #went