God is a female chicken

"She's tiptoeing into the very beginning of some sort of relationship with God, or with a higher power, or something, but it is very hard for her to believe...

I recommended that she think of all of the women who have most adored her in her life and to come up with a sense of God based on that kind of love, on the same protectedness that it gives you to be loved by a really fine woman, a sense of some mysterious regenerative force at the center of things that is maybe just love... by this morning, she'd found a picture of a big cat licking a little cat... So at the hospital this morning, as she sat in the doctor's office getting the chemo IV, and then as she sat around at home all day waiting to become Linda Blair, she said she'd picture this big cat licking her gently and carrying her in its mouth to safer places."

Anne Lamott, Operating Instruction

KFKD

"It's that radio station KFKD... which plays in stereo in my head; out of the right speaker, the endless self-aggrandizement, all the commentary regarding my specialness, uniqueness, all the imaginary TV talk-show interviews with Johnny and Joan and Dick Cavett, and then out of the left speaker... every late-breaking bad bulletin on what a mess I'm making or am about to make of things, the fear of being uncovered, of impending doom."

Anne Lamott, Operating Intructions