For too long, and despite what people told me, I had fallen for what the culture said about beauty, youth, features, heights, weights, hair textures,… - Anne Lamott

I try to write the books I would love to come upon, that are honest, concerned with real lives, human hearts, spiritual transformation, families, secrets, wonder, craziness — and that can make me laugh. When I am reading a book like this, I feel rich and profoundly relieved to be in the presence of someone who will share the truth with me, and throw the lights on a little, and I try to write these kinds of books. Books, for me, are medicine.

Some people may have thought that this book was too personal, too confessional. But what these people think about me is none of my business.

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.