What Anne Lamott has said about Single parenthood
1 quote · 1 episode · Jul 31, 2026
Anne Lamott, American writer and essayist, author of Bird by Bird, Operating Instructions and Somehow: Thoughts on Love, has been quoted on Single parenthood once in 1 episode of TED Radio Hour, most recently on July 31, 2026. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.
In their words
Lamott says no one was writing about the boredom, exhaustion and ambivalence of caring for an infant, so she did.
“It just wasn't that a mother or a parent was writing about how bored you can be with an infant and how exhausting it is all the time, how ambivalent you feel”
TED Radio Hour: Addiction, motherhood and Jesus with writer Anne Lamott (Jul 31, 2026) · Listen from 28:57
Episodes
Addiction, motherhood and Jesus with writer Anne LamottTED Radio Hour · Jul 31, 2026 · 50 min
Writer Anne Lamott talks with Manoush Zomorodi about writing, alcoholism and recovery, faith, single motherhood, her son's addiction, death and turning 70.
Anne Lamott on other topics
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