"I was overly responsible."
"I was overly responsible."
"When you learn to laugh at yourself you will never run out of material...and people don't have to pretend that I'm perfect."
"I did not intend to stay here 45 years. I came in to find out what I needed to say and what I needed to do to keep him from drinking that crap and then we'd be all right and then I could get married."
"It hurt to walk through the air. My fingernails hurt."
"I'm gllad there's not a slogan, 'Figure It Out'."
"It is a bit much to ask a woman who has spent 30 years trying to hide her problem to get up here and tell all."
"Our Father which art in heaven, how'd you know my name?"
"My story is a little different from a lot of Al-Anons.
I didn't come here to get anybody sober.
I was completely and totally isolated and alone except for one sober member of Alcoholics Anonymous.
He did not live in my town. He had been my counselor and he was my line to sanity.
I came to you because every day I was standing in front of the mirror and saying
'I have it in me to hold it together - today.'"
"We are much more brothers and sisters in our defects than we have ever been in our virtues."
"I was a basket case of negative emotions...I was in a spiritual coma."