Florida Scott-Maxwell
Florida Scott-Maxwell
Florida Pier Scott-Maxwellwas a playwright, author and psychologist...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
CountryUnited States of America
destroys life meant
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.
children matter mother signs watches
No matter how old a mother is she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.
waiting black kitchen
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.
mothers-day mom mother-daughter
No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.
years indulge-in interesting
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. To my own surprise I burst out with hot conviction. Only a few years ago I enjoyed my tranquility; now I am so disturbed by the outer world and by human quality in general that I want to put things right, as though I still owed a debt to life. I must calm down. I am far too frail to indulge in moral fervor.
discovery
We must find out for ourselves, otherwise it wouldn't be discovery.
interesting alive honorable
Difficulties are what makes it honorable and interesting to be alive.
rap book grandmother
As I do not live in an age when rustling black skirts billow about me, and I do not carry an ebony stick to strike the floor in sharp rebuke, as this is denied me, I rap out a sentence in my note book and feel better. If a grandmother wants to put her foot down, the only safe place to do it these days is in a note book.
lions sound innocent
Making those we love happy sounds innocent as a dove, but it can be as destructive as a lion.
delight admiration chiefs
Admiration is one of the chief delights of living.
knows known
To know another, and to be known by another--that is everything.
fighting atheism energy
Anger must be the energy that has not yet found its fight channel.
pain wonder
Is there any stab as deep as wondering where and how much you failed those you loved.
gay brave balance
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.