Anne Lamott
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"Anne Lamott" is an American novelist and non-fiction writer.

She is also a Progressivism in the United States/progressive political activist, public speaker, and writing teacher. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, her nonfiction works are largely autobiographical. Marked by their self-deprecating humor and openness, Lamott's writings cover such subjects as alcoholism, Single parent/single-motherhood, Clinical depression/depression, and Christianity.

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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.

I do not at all understand the mystery of grace - only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us.

When hope is not pinned wriggling onto a shiny image or expectation, it sometimes floats forth and opens.

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

Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor.

All the older people who are thriving have stayed physically active — there are exceptions, and everyone knows someone who smoked two packs a day and had a few social beers with breakfast every morning who lived to be 85, but you have to assume that this won't be you, ... Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith.

A hundred years for now? All new people.

Seeing yourself in print is such an amazing concept: you can get so much attention without having to actually show up somewhere . . .You don't have to dress up, for instance, and you can't hear them boo you right away.

You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.