Anne Lamott Quotes

When I was a kid, everything was so unplanned, my parents were so erratic, and my world was so inconsistent.

Childhood can be hell. One reason … is that as a child you have no power.

I've lost a lot of control in my life.

I'm not surprised that I tend to go for the dark side. I was a really scared kid, so I think I understand what scares people.

Gym class was, of course, where the strongest, best-looking kids were made captains and chose us spazzes last. More important, it was where the figures of supposed authority allowed them to do so. Forget the work our parents did molding our minds and values. Everything fell apart as soon as we put on those maroon polyester gym suits.

I think that children are acutely sensitive to injustice because they live in a world that is absolutely filled with injustice. They have very, very little power, and they are extremely aware of power relations.

Think of submitting our measure to the advice of politicians! I would as soon submit the subject of the equality of a goose to a fox.

Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.

The powerlessness of the child is often forgotten. And after it comes the terrifying phase of moving into adulthood.

In our political system, money is power. And that means a few can have a lot more power than the rest. That's bad news for everyone else - and for our democracy itself.

Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them.

I've discovered I've got this preoccupation with ordinary people pursued by large forces.

Power is precarious.

I think there's a fear once things start to blow up - as the people say - that if you stop for a second, it will all go away.

For the longest time, my older brother told me he was teaching me self-defense, but now that I'm grown up, I realize he was just practicing his martial arts on me.

I was seven or eight and a kid who was easily picked on. Not bullied but other kids would've told me what to do in the streets. I was very shy. I used to put my head down.

I've had an incredible upbringing, but it was quite chaotic.

Vivre est une chute horizontale. Life is a horizontal fall.

There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident.

Maybe sometimes you just feel like everything can be taken from you all at once.

There's no way I can be tossed around like a bottle slapped here and there on the waves.

She knew that she belonged to this man, body and soul. Every trace of shame departed; it was burnt out by the fire that consumed her. She gave him a thousand opportunities; she fought to turn his words to serious things. He baffled her with his shallow smile and ready tongue, that twisted all topics to triviality. By six o'clock she was morally on her knees before him; she was imploring him to stay to dinner with her. He refused.

It can be dangerous to weaken the strong in our attempts to strengthen the weak.

The Commonwealth is a mere club, but it has become like Animal Farm, where some members are more equal than others. How can Blair claim to regulate and direct events and still say all of us are equals?

Keep in mind that I'm crazy, won't you?