Anne Lamott
Related I was raised by my great-great aunt. I was adopted within our family. My mother had me when she was,... ERIC DICKERSON I met Gemma, my wife, when she was 12. She had a schoolgirl crush on me and her dad had arranged for... GARY NUMAN EDMUND WHITE ANGELINA JOLIE DIANE VON FURSTENBERG I tried to get my mother to move in with me, but she wanted to stay in her own home. When my mother ... CAROL REBELLO I tried to get my mother to move in with me, but she wanted to stay in her own home. When my mother ... CAROL S. REBELLO NICHOLAS SPARKS JOHN GREEN I lived with my mother all my life until she died, and I don't really think I knew her, because ... HARRIET WALTER I had to come out to my mother three times over a twelve-year period, but I first came out to her wh... BILLY PORTER JAMES LAFFERTY I started reading seriously at seven or eight, books about myths and legends, the Narnia series. By ... MALORIE BLACKMAN NICHOLAS SPARKS ROBERT WINSTON I never thought I’d ever leave Zerc. But after knowing Cricket, it occurred to me that I had no re... ASH GRAY My mum died of leukemia when I was in high school - she lost her life at 40. It was very hard, and I... CORY HARDRICT JOHN GREEN Worse, the name of her father who had died was still on the list. AQUILINO PIMENTEL WILL ROGERS I raised my sister. I was six when she was born. My mother had to make a living for herself and it w... NATALIA VODIANOVA My mother desperately wanted children. She had a child that was stillborn - something I learned when... STANLEY HAUERWAS I really loved my daughter, I loved her so much. I thanked God every day I had her. She was my life. ANNE AUSTIN RUTH REICHL She was a feminist without knowing anything about the women's movement, ... I love that she refused ... TOVAH FELDSHUH CAROLINE KENNEDY CLIVE BARKER You don't know what it's like to grow up with a mother who never said a positive thing in her life, ... JUNOT DíAZ KATHA POLLITT I suppose poets have written sonnets for a thousand years about being in love. A lot of people say, ... ROBERT BLAKE PATRICK ROTHFUSS STACIA KANE ALICE MUNRO HENRY JAMES Her taste still teased my tongue, and her touch tipped my fingers. Her smile licked my lips, and her... J. RAYMOND STEVE CARELL JENNIFER L. ARMENTROUT MARIO TESTINO POLLY TOYNBEE JODI PICOULT COLLEEN HOOVER Kessa ran her fingers over her stomach. Flat. But was it flat enough? Not quite. She still had some ... STEVEN LEVENKRON If I had it my way, Harper and I wouldn't be standing in this room right now, we wouldn't be pressed... MOLLY MCADAMS BETTY SMITH LAUREN BACALL I started stem cells when I wanted to find a cure for my mother, who I loved very much, and western ... PETER NYGARD Sally wasn't crying about their dead mother or her cancer. She was crying because her husband, Alfon... LUCIA BERLIN I just took her heart away from her right away. I was doing the feints, trying to get her out of her... JAIME CLAMPITT IAN MCEWAN Listening to Eddy describe his relationship with our mom seemed to indicate that what I feared would... JANET LOUISE STEPHENSON I had a very, very difficult relationship with my mother, who was supremely self-centred. She was hi... JOHN CLEESE I smiled and looked at her- there she was with such a genuine grin and twinkle in her eyes. I kissed... JORI NUNES BRANDON SANDERSON TIA MOWRY My mother cried when I told her I really didn't want to go to West Point. So I went. MARTIN DEMPSEY My mother died of cystic fibrosis before I knew her. I was two years old, and I don't remember h... JOHN LLOYD YOUNG You see a great player like Lindsey and at times it looks effortless for her on the field, so she so... JON LIPSITZ Her quality of life had been deteriorating for some time, so I was relieved that she was now at peac... DREW WOJTANIK My grandmother was a chemist. She worked at the Banting Institute in Toronto, and at 44 she died of ... EVA VERTES I had to go hard at her ... treat her like a man. I was really up for her. I wanted to wrestle her. JASON GRAY ROBERT WILSON GILLIAN FLYNN ALLEGRA GOODMAN JEFFREY EUGENIDES TYLER PERRY NICHOLAS SPARKS POPPY DELEVINGNE EZEKIEL EMANUEL COLLEEN HOOVER This was our house. Mine and hers. I know she’d sneak over to the rectory every once in a while an... TIFFANY REISZ Then I looked right at Mama, for the first time in what seemed like forever, and she wasn't looking ... KATHERINE HANNIGAN Meeting Helen Mirren was a fabulous experience. I had played it out in my mind, how I should greet h... OM PURI JOAN SUTHERLAND JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER SARAH WATERS I couldn't tell what colour her eyes were. They were wet and dark and shining, like pools of deep, s... GLENDA MILLARD GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I wish she had been alive to see it. When I was a little girl, I used to lock myself in my room and ... ELIDA REYNA JOSH DUHAMEL She was disoriented. She was out and had to be helped to her corner, despite the fact that she was s... MAUREEN SHEA My mom was a single mom, and she had enough on her plate. I knew when I was doing something I wasn&#... JASON ALDEAN METHOD MAN Even though I love my mother, I didn't want to make an idealized portrait of her. I'm fascin... PEDRO ALMODOVAR After my mother died, I found, a little book of hers which recorded everything I had ever done, how ... CONRAD VEIDT STEPHEN COLBERT When you think in terms of public service, I heard so much about what Mother Theresa had done in her... ANTHONY FAUCI AUGUST WILSON Taylor has been running since the 6th grade. Her freshman year was her best, she had leg problems la... DAN SATKOSKI ROBERT DE NIRO STEPHEN CHBOSKY REBECCA SOLNIT GIGI HADID There had been no enemies, just one single adversary, herself; her future had been killed by her own... GIUSEPPE TOMASI DI LAMPEDUSA HELEN MIRREN EMMANUELLE CHRIQUI KIRAN DESAI JAMEELA JAMIL I was brought up in the shadow of the Holocaust. My mother lost most of her family, and I didn't... NAOMI BENARON WILLIAM WESTMORELAND CHLOE SEVIGNY
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I never liked my father. He really was a dullard and misanthrope. My mother and he were married for ... 
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I never modeled myself after anyone. The person who had most influence on me was my mother, but it w... 
What was she like?"
Hazel has to realize that her mom was wrong when she said, “I won’t be a mother anymore.” The ... 
What I remember most about junior homecoming was my date getting sick afterwards. That kinda sucked.... 
She was my dream. She made me who I am, and holding her in my arms was more natural to me than my ow... 
I don't believe in regretting - one should try to move on. My mum was good at that. She was deep... 
My own mother died when I was 10 years old. My folks have told me that what little humor I have come... 
My mother started out by being a very good girl. She did everything that was expected of her, and it... 
I never thought I'd be doing poetry books. I never really studied poetry. But the first one I di... 
I remember when I watched 'Hellraiser' with my mother. She cried when she saw my name in the... 
My mother had an illegal abortion in 1960, which was the year the birth control pill came out, but I... 
I have known her longer, my smile said. True, you have been inside the circle of her arms, tasted he... 
When had being an addict gotten so fucking hard? So exhausting? It had been so easy for so long; she... 
I don't think that much about my relationship with my mother and what it did to me. I sometimes ... 
...It often seemed to her that she thought too much about herself, you could have made her blush any... 
I was sort of traumatized by girls in the third grade. Because there was a girl in my third grade cl... 
We stared at each other for several moments, neither of us speaking or moving, and then I was in fro... 
I've always had an affinity with women. It probably started with my mother when I was young, but... 
My mother begged doctors to end her life. She was beyond the physical ability to swallow enough of t... 
The strange thing; her face, after she hit me. She was in greater pain than I. You could see it in h... 
I stood beside the U-Haul, and I just watched her. I stared at her while she looked on with the sadd... 
Sissy had two great failings. She was a great lover and a great mother. She had so much of tendernes... 
My mother was the greatest example to me of anyone I've ever known. She didn't have an easy ... 
She raised one hand and flexed its fingers and wondered, as she had sometimes before, how this thing... 
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I've never been discriminated against, but I have witnessed discrimination. I was talking to a d... 
I had dinner with Marlene Dietrich in the early 1970s. I went to pick her up and she had someone wit... 
I felt hollowed out. My mom's death was not useful. I felt a shot of rage at her, and then imagined ... 
I used to write poetry when I was younger," Jess said. She had kept a notebook by her bed, in case s... 
Listening to Leonard, Madeleine felt impoverished by her happy childhood. She never wondered why she... 
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When I was about 4, my mum had a lime-green Versace jacket with massive shoulder pads, and I remembe... 
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Maybe I’m not the hero to her I've always tried so hard to be, because right now, I feel as if she... 
I wasn't actually trained by my mother, she said she never taught me but she was a great singer hers... 
I went to my grandmother, your great-great-grandmother, and asked her to write a letter. She was my ... 
She raised her head when she heard my step, and her gaze met my own, over the matron's dipping shoul... 
She was scarcely a year older than I was, dark-haired, slender, with a face that would break your he... 
When I was on 'All My Children,' we did a thing for 'Seventeen Magazine' where a gir... 
One girl who stands out was this Miami stripper. She still lives with her mother and father, and the... 
I used to write things for friends. There was this girl I had a crush on, and she had a teacher she ... 
My first wife is a good woman, I still can't say nothing bad about her other than the fact that ... 
My mother worked for a woman, Maria Ley-Piscator, who with her husband founded the Dramatic Workshop... 
Next was Alice. I gave her a book by Anne Rice because she is always talking about her. And she look... 
How can I tell a story we already know too well? Her name was Africa. His was France. He colonized h... 
My sister is my little star, and I'm excited for her and proud of her. With her, I'm protect... 
One thing I found hard to get scripted was the size of her ego. Her ego was so huge. She was about b... 
My mom was an aesthetician and she went to beauty school back in the '60s. I just remember watch... 
What is this all about,' asked Sai, but her mouth couldn't address her ear in the tumult; her mind c... 
Three women in my family, close relatives, have had breast cancer, and two have died from it, and st... 
My wife was my greatest asset. I didn't marry her until after World War II, but she has compleme... 
I have so much admiration for people who devote their life to the church, ... I was quite inspired b... 
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I do not at all understand the mystery of grace - only that it meets us where we are but does not le... 
I am going to notice the lights of the earth, the sun and the moon and the stars, the lights of our ... 