You begin to string words together like beads to tell a story. You are desperate to communicate, to edify or entertain, to preserve moments of grace … - Anne Lamott

Age has given me the gift of me, it just gave me what I was always longing for, which was to get to be the woman I've already dreamt of being. Which is somebody who can do rest and do hard work and be a really constant companion, a constant tender-hearted wife to myself.

Writing can give you what having a baby can give you: it can get you to start paying attention, can help you to soften, can wake you up.

When we think we can do it all ourselves — fix, save, buy, or date a nice solution — it's hopeless. We're going to screw things up. We're going to get our tentacles wrapped around things and squirt our squiddy ink all over, so that there is even less visibility, and then we're going to squeeze the very life out of everything.