“There's no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.”

— Jill Churchill

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American writer of historical, mystery, and romantic novels… 1943

Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey (1938) American journalist and playwright

Source: A Woman of Independent Means

“We want to know that life is good. Not perfect but good. Not problem free, but good. Good in some way that we did not anticipate. Good in some way that connects us to God, others, and our purposes in life.”

John Townsend (1952) Canadian clinical psychologist and author

Where Is God (2009, Thomas Nelson publishers)

“If you want to read a perfect book there is only one way: write it.”

Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914) American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabulist, and satirist

Source: Epigrams, p. 353

“There's no way to repay a mother's love, or lack of it.”

Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) American journalist

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

“I'm a good person. In most ways. But I'm beginning to think that being a good person in most ways doesn't count for anything very much, if you're a bad person in one way.”

Nick Hornby (1957) English novelist

“Society expects trans women to be perfect the way they expect all women to be perfect.”

Abby Stein (1991) Trans activist, speaker, and educator

2017

“Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is perfect in the same way that The Great Gatsby is perfect.”

William McKeen (1954) American academic

Preface, The End, p. xiv
Outlaw Journalist (2008)
Context: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is perfect in the same way that The Great Gatsby is perfect. Take a pencil and read these books, looking for something that doesn't sound right, something you'd want to change. You'll leave the page untouched.