5 Quotes by Florida Scott-Maxwell

• 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.
• 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.
• It is not easy to be sure that being yourself is worth the trouble, but we do know it is our sacred duty.
• 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.
• No matter how old a mother is she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.

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