Florida Scott-Maxwell Quotes

Quotations and aphorisms by Florida Scott-Maxwell:

No matter how old a mother is she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.
~Florida Scott-Maxwell


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Life does not accommodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn’t do it better. Every seed destroys its container or else there would be no fruition.
~Florida Scott-Maxwell


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It is not easy to be sure that being yourself is worth the trouble, but we do know it is our sacred duty.
~Florida Scott-Maxwell


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<a href="https://openquotes.github.io/authors/florida-scott-maxwell-quotes/#212107da">https://openquotes.github.io/authors/florida-scott-maxwell-quotes/#212107da</a>

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.
~Florida Scott-Maxwell


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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.
~Florida Scott-Maxwell


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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.
~Florida Scott-Maxwell


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