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Florida Scott-Maxwell —
American
Writer
Florida Pier Scott-Maxwell was a playwright, author and psychologist... (wikipedia)
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.
It is not easy to be sure that being yourself is worth the trouble, but we do know it is our sacred duty.
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.
No matter how old a mother is she 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 eighties are passionate. I grow more intense as I age.
