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

- Florida Scott-Maxwell

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

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 …

- Florida Scott-Maxwell

I wonder why love is so often equated with joy when it is everything else as well. Devastation, balm, obsession, granting and receiving excessive val…

- Florida Scott-Maxwell

Claim the events of your life! When you posses all you have been and done, you are fierce with reality.

- Florida Scott-Maxwell

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

- Florida Scott-Maxwell

Life does not acommodate 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…

- Florida Scott-Maxwell

You need only claim the events of your life to make yourself yours. When you truly possess all you have been and done, which may take some time, you …

- Florida Scott-Maxwell

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 yourse…

- Florida Scott-Maxwell