...most of the time, all you have is the moment, and the imperfect love of the people around you. - Anne Lamott

We stitch together quilts of meaning to keep us warm and safe, with whatever patches of beauty and utility we have on hand.

[Her] work taught me that you could be all the traditional feminine things — a mother, a lover, a listener, a nurturer — and you could also be critically astute and radical and have a minority opinion that was profoundly moral.

we all wanted this because let's face it, it's so inspiring and such a relief when people find a way to bear the unbearable, when you can organize things in such a way that a tiny miracle appears to have taken place and that love has once again turn out to be bigger than fear and death and blindness.