Florida Scott-Maxwell

Quotes by Florida Scott-Maxwell

• Life does not accommodate you; it shatters you. Every seed destroys its container, or else there would be no fruition.

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• Life does not accommodate you; it shatters you. Every seed destroys its container, or else there would be no fruition.

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• Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate. I grow more intense as I age.

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• My kitchen linoleum is so black and shiny that I waltz while I wait for the kettle to boil. This pleasure is for the old who live alone.

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• The crucial task of old age is balance: keeping just well enough, just brave enough, just gay and interested and starkly honest enough to remain a sentient human being.

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• Is life a pregnancy? That would make death a birth.

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• No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.

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• No matter how old a mother is she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.

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• Is there any stab as deep as wondering where and how much you failed those you loved?

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