Anne Lamott

I do not at all understand the mystery of grace - only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us.

I've heard that our greatest cross to carry is ourselves - how gravely we fall short.

If our lives are made up of a string of a thousand moments, at some of those moments we look a lot more spiritually evolved than at others.

I hate the bad rap that people give my parents. Because they are just parents, really, at the end of the day trying to stand up for their daughter and themselves.

I studied international relations and economics at the University of Virginia. I paid my way by working as a bartender in the summer and at three part-time jobs during the year.