Madeleine LEngle Quotes about Husband

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When a bride insists on telling her lover everything, I suspect she is looking for a father, not a husband.

When a bride insists on telling her lover everything, I suspect she is looking for a father, not a husband.

Madeleine L'Engle

Husband, Father, Lovers

Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Two-Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage”, p.49, Open Road Media

During the long drag of years before our youngest child went to school, my love for my family and my need to write were in acute conflict. The problem was really that I put two things first. My husband and children came first. So did my writing. Bump.

Madeleine L'Engle

Husband, Children, Writing

Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.14, Open Road Media

My husband is my most ruthless critic... sometimes he will say, 'It's been said better before.' Of course it has. It's all been said better before. If I thought I had to say it better than anybody else, I'd never start. Better or worse is immaterial. The thing is that it has to be said; by me; ontologically. We each have to say it, to say it our own way. Not of our own will, but as it comes out through us. Good or bad, great or little: that isn't what human creation is about. It is that we have to try; to put it down in pigment, or words, or musical notations, or we die.

Madeleine L'Engle

Husband, Musical, Trying

FaceBook post by Madeleine L'Engle from May 06, 2016

Madeleine LEngle Quotes about Husband

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