Quotes by : Florida Scott-Maxwell

Difficulties are what makes it honorable and interesting to be alive.

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

The crucial task of old age is balance: keeping just well enough, just brave enough, just gay and interested....

You need only claim the events of your life to make yourself yours. When you truly possess all you have....

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

Life does not accommodate you; it shatters you. Every seed destroys its container, or else there would....

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

We who are old know that age is more than a disability. It is an intense and varied experience almost....

Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene, but my....

Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene but my....