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.

I am skittish about relationships, as most of the marriages I've seen up close have been ruinous for one or both parties.

The American way is to not need help, but to help.

Anne Lamott Quotes