"Marriage must adapt itself to one's career. With a man, it is all arranged and expected. If the woman is the artist, it upsets the standards, the conventions, the usual arrangements, and usually, it ruins the woman's art. I feel that it is difficult to reconcile the domestic life with the artistic. A woman should choose one or the other. She must have freedom, not restraint. She must receive aid, not selfish, jealous exactions and complaints. When a woman of talent marries a man who appreciates that side of her, such a marriage may be ideally happy for both."
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Women born in the 19th centuryComposers from FrancePianists from FranceWomen from FranceWomen pianists
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Quoted in The life and music of Cecile Chaminade: Genius has no gender, WETA (March 21, 2023)
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