Believing in George Bush was so ludicrous that believing in God almost seems rational. - Anne Lamott

So Rita and I decided that the most subversive, revolutionary thing I could do was to show up for my life and not be ashamed.

Oh my God, what if you wake up some day, and you’re 65, or 75, and you never got your memoir or novel written; or you didn’t go swimming in warm pools and oceans all those years because your thighs were jiggly and you had a nice big comfortable tummy; or you were just so strung out on perfectionism and people-pleasing that you forgot to have a big juicy creative life, of imagination and radical silliness and staring off into space like when you were a kid? It’s going to break your heart. Don’t let this happen.

And she is going to dance, dance hungry, dance full, dance each cold astonishing moment, now when she is young and again when she is old.