“… 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

Source: Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year

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Novelist, essayist, memoirist, activist 1954

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