Jill Churchill Quotes

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

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.

Michael and Jill were connoisseurs of personality, transcending politics. They loved Randolph Churchill, who ran two losing campaigns against Michael in Plymouth and they adored Benjamin Disraeli, Mrs. Pankhurst, Lady Astor—all of them affiliated with the Tories. Sometimes, as I would later learn, Michael would go into contorted arguments to support those he liked even when they manifestly stood for views opposite to his own.