Quotes by Florida Scott-Maxwell

Florida Scott-Maxwell

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.

Age

Interesting

Passionate

Another secret we carry is that though drab outside – wreckage to the eye, mirrors a mortification – inside we flame with a wild life that is almost incommunicable.

Eye

Flames

Mirrors

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.

Book

Grandmother

Rap

as we age we are more alive than seems likely, convenient, or even bearble. Too often our problem is the fervor of life within us. My dear fellow octogenarians, how are we to carry so much life, and what are we to do with it?

Age

Alive

Problem

Difference of opinion has never been sufficiently appreciated. It is the unexpected, the unknowable, the divine irrationality of life that saves us.

Differences

Opinion

Serious

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

Alive

Honorable

Interesting

I want to tell people approaching and perhaps fearing old age that it is a time of discovery. If they say “Of what?” I can only answer “We must find out for ourselves, otherwise it wouldn’t be discovery.”

Age

Discovery

People

I wonder if living alone makes one more alive. No precious energy goes in disagreement or compromise. No need to augment others, there is just yourself, just truth – a morsel – and you.

Energy

Needs

Solitude

Is life a pregnancy? That would make death a birth.

Birth

Death

Pregnancy

Is there any stab as deep as wondering where and how much you failed those you loved.

Family

Pain

Wonder

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Alive

Balance

Birth

Book

Bravery

Children

Dare

Daughter

Death

Differences

Disability

Discovery

Doe

Energy

Eye

Family

Flames

Florida

Fun

Gay

Giving

Grandmother

Heart

Honorable

Innocent

Intense

Interesting

Kitchen

Lions

Love Is

Love Relationship

Mirrors

Mother

Needs

Opinion

Order

Pain

Passionate

People

Play

Pregnancy

Problem

Rap

Reality

Serious

Solitude

Sound

Support

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Quotes by Florida Scott-Maxwell

Florida Scott-Maxwell

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.

Another secret we carry is that though drab outside – wreckage to the eye, mirrors a mortification – inside we flame with a wild life that is almost incommunicable.

as we age we are more alive than seems likely, convenient, or even bearble. Too often our problem is the fervor of life within us. My dear fellow octogenarians, how are we to carry so much life, and what are we to do with it?

Difference of opinion has never been sufficiently appreciated. It is the unexpected, the unknowable, the divine irrationality of life that saves us.

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

I want to tell people approaching and perhaps fearing old age that it is a time of discovery. If they say “Of what?” I can only answer “We must find out for ourselves, otherwise it wouldn’t be discovery.”

I wonder if living alone makes one more alive. No precious energy goes in disagreement or compromise. No need to augment others, there is just yourself, just truth – a morsel – and you.

Is life a pregnancy? That would make death a birth.

Is there any stab as deep as wondering where and how much you failed those you loved.

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