Madeleine L'Engle Quotes About Mothers

Quotes about: Mothers

• I looked at this tiny, perfect creature and it was as though a light switch had been turned on. A great rush of love flooded out of me.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Mom, Mother, Light

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Two-Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage”, p.73, Open Road Media

• Experiment is the mother of knowledge.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Mother, Experiments

  Madeleine L'Engle (2007). “A Wrinkle in Time”, p.55, Penguin UK

• We know you have a great mind and all, Mother, but you don’t have much sense.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Mother, Mind, Great Minds

  Madeleine L'Engle (2013). “A Wrinkle in Time Trilogy”, p.22, Macmillan

• I love my mother, not as a prisoner of atherosclerosis, but as a person; and I must love her enough to accept her as she is, now, for as long as this dwindling may take.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Mother, Family Love, Long

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “The Summer of the Great-Grandmother”, p.94, Open Road Media

• I got so discouraged, I almost stopped writing. It was my 12-year-old son who changed my mind when he said to me, "Mother, you've been very cross and edgy with us and we notice you haven't been writing. We wish you'd go back to the typewriter. That did a lot of good for my false guilts about spending so much time writing. At that point, I acknowledged that I am a writer and even if I were never published again, that's what I am."

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Mother, Writing, Son

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