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When we agree to being part of something bigger than our own wired, fixated minds, we are saved.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Minds
Agree
Bigger
Part
Mind
Something
Fixated
Wired
Saved

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I was the angriest daughter on earth, and also, one of the most devoted.
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I quit my last real job, as a writer at a magazine, when I was twenty-one. That was the moment when I lost my place of prestige on the fast track, and slowly, millimeter by millimeter, I started to get found, to discover who I had been born to be, instead of the impossibly small package, all tied up tightly in myself, that I had agreed to be.
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