"Al-Anons talk longer than AAs because we remember more."
"I am not a public speaker. I may be more like a cross-eyed javelin thrower who doesn't set any records but he sure keeps the audience alert."
"Al-Anons talk longer than AAs because we remember more."
"I am not a public speaker. I may be more like a cross-eyed javelin thrower who doesn't set any records but he sure keeps the audience alert."
"I was like a chameleon on a plaid skirt."
"Trying to keep an alcoholic sober is like trying to teach a pig to sing.
It doesn't work and it just annoys the pig."
"If you ever get in trouble - Power will get you out."
She says,
"I do not ever have to be afraid again."
"I came to find the disintegrated pieces of a personality that was me."
"Hillbillies don't like to be obliged."
"He knew why I could not trust people."
"If you fail to carry this message then may God have mercy on those people and may God have mercy on us."
"Am I weller than some by coming all those years or am I sicker than some? I just still feel the need.... I am cultivating the young ones because you can still drive and I need you!"
"Just being married to an alcoholic doesn't make me an Al-Anon...Just sitting in a garage doesn't make you a car."
"I was always fascinated by kids who got into trouble...If Saddam Hussein had been an exchange student, I would have been attracted to him."
"We didn't have old timers. We had a little Blue Book."
"I was a basket case of negative emotions...I was in a spiritual coma."
"The Atlanta Roundup has not always been Al-Anon friendly but it is Al-Anon friendly today."
"I am of the theory that when it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's a duck."
"I stand before you a reformed husband beater. I have been kicked out of more bars never having had a drink for attacking my husband."