Princeton is a community and an institution where flawed and resilient human beings support one another to learn, grow, cope with our limitations and pursue the transcendent through scholarship, service and the arts.
Hope is never a willful ignorance to the hardships and cruelties that so many suffer or the enormous challenges that we face in mounting progress in this imperfect world… .
We aren't prepared to jeopardise our reputation by selling anything which is not perfect. Customers haven't got time to waste on returning sub-standard goods to the shops.
I got a low-paying theater job in a play called imperfect love, which led to a film called 13 moons with the same writer, which led to other roles which led to other roles, and I've worked as an actor ever since.
Not because we are perfect, we are not, but because we find the courage to admit our imperfections because imperfection leaves room for improvement, room to ascend beyond anything we can dream of today.
What we have is data on the world as it is and we have serious problems with racism, sexism, classism, ageism, in the world right now so there is no such thing as perfect data.
True love is only ever the compassion of the fallen for the fallen; it's the search by one radically imperfect being to express their tenderness at the sight of the struggles and pains of another.
When she painted " Self Portrait in a Velvet Dress" , she kept all of those details true to real life, even though she could have easily painted out what society deemed as imperfections.
These are just three examples of thousands, thousands of girls who have been socialized to be imperfect, who have learned to keep trying, who have learned perseverance.