Florida Scott-Maxwell Quotes

"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
(Related: Age, Time, Thought, Quiet)

"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
(Related: Being, Duty, Trouble, Worth)

"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
(Related: Life)

"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
(Related: Kitchen, Old, Pleasure)

"No matter how old a mother is she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement."
- Florida Scott-Maxwell
(Related: Mother, Children, Improvement, Old)