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.
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I didn't write about my mother much in the third year after she died. I was still trying to get my argument straight: When her friends or our relatives wondered why I was still so hard on her, I could really lay out the case for what it had been like to be raised by someone who had loathed herself, her husband, even her own name.
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Birth: | 10th April, 1954 |
Nationality: | American |
Profession: | Activist, Novelist, Teacher, Writer |
Anne Lamott was born in San Francisco. She is an American novelist and non-fiction writer. She is also a 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-motherhood, depression, and Christianity. Her first published novel Hard Laughter was written for him after his diagnosis of brain cancer.
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