Anne Lamott Quotes

I really have to feel a sense of freedom in my storytelling.

Everything I write has to be connected to my life. One of the things that always comes up in my writing is the search for freedom, especially in women.

But I found that disappointing people is a good thing, because disapproval is freedom.

It's always been something I've been searching for - freedom. It's a very relative thing. It means different things to different people.

For the first time I'm free to be myself.

Our work is a scream of freedom.

I'm beyond caring what anyone expects of me anymore.

I can really write what I want. I can take time; I can do nothing for a year. That is paradise.

I write what I like. I don't bother what people think about it.

I think writing a solo play was the most liberating thing I ever did.

For me, it is freedom, freedom from everything: when I write, I'm not a woman. I'm not a Muslim. I'm not a Moroccan. I can reinvent myself, and I can reinvent the world.

It's nice to finally be my own person.

Power frees us from the chains of conformity.

I'm free. So, every time you hear me, just know that I'm speaking as a liberated person.

When, no matter what you do, everybody's going to punch holes in it, then you just go and you do what you want. And that's the most freeing place to be.

Everything that frees our spirit without giving us control of ourselves is ruinous.

Life is about recapturing lost freedoms.

To be more free is the goal of all our efforts, for only in perfect freedom can there be perfection.

If you want to be free, be free, because there's a million things to be.

Once you've tasted freedom, it stays in your heart...

Losing a parent is something like driving through a plate-glass window. You didn't know it was there until it shattered, and then for years to come you're picking up the pieces -- down to the last glassy splinter.

We don't know the end from the beginning the way that God does. So when a child dies, sure that is incredibly difficult, and when you are the parent, there is almost nothing anybody can say to you that makes any sense.

Isn't there such a thing as social liberation?" "Of course there is," said the Master. "How would you describe it?" "Liberation from the need to belong to the herd.

Here was the freedom I desired, long sought-for, not yet known Freedom to write, to walk, to wander, freedom to climb hills, to pull a boat, to be alone.

What I'm really interested in is freedom.