There is no way to be a perfect mother, and a million ways to be a good one

It wouldn’t make much sense to increase the penalty for bigamy. A bigamist has two mothers-in-law, and that’s punishment enough.

The most important thing she'd learned over the years was that there was no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.

Middle-class mothers and fathers turned out to be a very well-defined consumer group, easily gulled into buying almost anything that might remedy their parental deficiencies.

How much I love my mom cannot be measured in words, it's just too much and too hard to describe.

How much I love my mom cannot be measured in words, it's just too much and too hard to describe.