Quote

This is one thing they forget to mention in most child-rearing books, that at times you will just lose your mind. Period.

Anne Lamott

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Children
Periods
Thing
Lose
Mind
Loses
Books
Child
Forget
Rearing
Times
Mention
Book
Period

More quotes by Anne Lamott

Image
...because when people have seen you at their worst, you don't have to put on the mask as much.
Anne Lamott
Image
I am all the ages I've ever been.
Anne Lamott
Image
I believe in listening to the - what calls you from your heart and your spirit and if you do it badly, like learning to dance, you do it badly or you're going to kick yourself when you grow old and you meant to do it.
Anne Lamott
Image
[S]he believed that the Buddhists were right–that if you want, you will suffer if you love, you will grieve. (68)
Anne Lamott
Image
Being a parent is absolutely exhausting and draining, along with all the joy and love.
Anne Lamott
Image
Good writing is about telling the truth.
Anne Lamott
Image
Mostly what happens in the novels never happened in real life.
Anne Lamott
Image
I'm here to be me, which is taking a great deal longer than I had hoped.
Anne Lamott
Image
Expectations are resentments under construction.
Anne Lamott
Image
Having a baby is like suddenly getting the world's worst roommate.
Anne Lamott
Image
And my fear of failure has been lifelong and deep. If you are what you do- and I think my parents may have accidentally given me this idea- and you do poorly, what then? It’s over you’re wiped out. All those prophecies you heard in the dark have come true, and people can see the real you, see what a schmendrick you are, what a fraud.
Anne Lamott
Image
Laughter is a bubbly, effervescent form of holiness
Anne Lamott
Image
Sometimes it takes failure to figure out who you aren't.
Anne Lamott
Image
I believe that discipline and self-love are the total secrets to freedom.
Anne Lamott
Image
You can either practice being right or practice being kind.
Anne Lamott
Image
You fall so deeply in love with your grandbaby. It's so so so much easier than being a parent, because you really don't have much responsibility. And just when you are at the end of your rope with exhaustion, the parents take the baby away. So it's the best of both worlds.
Anne Lamott
Image
Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere. Start by getting something—anything—down on paper. What I’ve learned to do when I sit down to work on a shitty first draft is to quiet the voices in my head.
Anne Lamott
Image
To be engrossed by something outside ourselves is a powerful antidote for the rational mind, the mind that so frequently has its head up its own ass.
Anne Lamott
Image
Life is really pretty tricky, and there's a lot of loss, and the longer you stay alive, the more people you lose whom you actually couldn't live without.
Anne Lamott
Image
What people somehow forgot to mention when we were children was that we need to make messes in order to find out who we are and why we are here.
Anne Lamott