Quotation by
Anne Lamott
I am the woman I grew to be partly in spite of my mother, and partly because of the extraordinary love of her best friends, and my own best friends' mothers, and from surrogates, many of whom were not women at all but gay men. I have loved them my entire
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Anne Lamott is saying that her identity as a woman was shaped both by challenges with her own mother and by the strong support and love she received from her mother's close friends, her friends' mothers, and other important people in her life, including gay men. She feels deep affection and gratitude for these diverse influences who helped her grow into the person she is today.
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