Anne Lamott Quotes About Rage

Quotes about: Rage

• Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. It's like singing on a boat during a terrible storm at sea. You can't stop the raging storm, but singing can change the hearts and spirits of the people who are together on that ship

  Anne Lamott

  Reading, Writing, Heart

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.237, Anchor

• ...one of the worst things about being a parent, for me, is the self-discovery, the being face to face with one's secret insanity and brokenness and rage.

  Anne Lamott

  Discovery, Self, Parent

  Anne Lamott (1994). “Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year”, Fawcett

• I cry intermittently, like a summer rain. I don't feel racked by the crying; in fact, it hydrates me. Then rage wells up in me, and I want to take a crowbar to all the cars in the neighborhood.

  Anne Lamott

  Summer, Rain, Car

  Anne Lamott (1994). “Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year”, Fawcett

• No one tells you that your life is effectively over when you have a child: that you're never going to draw another complacent breath again... or that whatever level of hypochondria and rage you'd learned to repress and live with is going to seem like the good old days.

  Anne Lamott

  Children, Levels, Life Is

• I was raised in a family where none of us ever raised a voice, so there was no room to express feelings of rage or even unabashed joy - a little bashed joy, here or there, or being mildly disgruntled.

  Anne Lamott

  Voice, Joy, Feelings

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