Quotes by : Florida Scott-Maxwell

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

It is as though God said, "You think to create order? Here is the appropriate disorder, since they are....

...[T]here are days when emptiness is spacious, and non-existence elevating.

It is not easy to be sure that being yourself is worth the trouble but [we do know] it is our sacred....

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....

This is what creation is. The might and marvel of forever creating out of opposition.

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

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

I say to life, "You are very hard", and I also say: "We are blind, we prefer to be blind. It is easier...".....