Order, cleanliness, seemliness make a structure that is half support, half ritual, and - if it does not create it - maintains… — Florida Scott-Maxwell Cleanliness Copy Share Image
You need only claim the events of your life to make yourself yours. When you truly possess all you have been and… — Florida Scott-Maxwell Age Copy Share Image
as we age we are more alive than seems likely, convenient, or even bearble. Too often our problem is the fervor of… — Florida Scott-Maxwell Age Copy Share Image
“Anger must be the evergy that has not yet found its right channel."---the Measure of my Days” — Florida Scott-Maxwell Anger Copy Share Image
My kitchen linoleum is so black and shiny that I waltz while I wait for the kettle to boil. This pleasure is… — Florida Scott-Maxwell Black Copy Share Image
Is there any stab as deep as wondering where and how much you failed those you loved. — Florida Scott-Maxwell Family Copy Share Image
One cannot be honest even at the end of one's life, for no one is wholly alone. We are bound to those… — Florida Scott-Maxwell Be brave Copy Share Image
To know another, and to be known by another--that is everything. — Florida Scott-Maxwell Known Copy Share Image
What fun it is to generalize in the privacy of a note book. It is as I imagine waltzing on ice might… — Florida Scott-Maxwell Book Copy Share Image
Our age is so gregarious that there is at present a marked prejudice against anyone being alone. It is looked down on,… — Florida Scott-Maxwell Age Copy Share Image
I wonder why love is so often equated with joy when it is everything else as well. Devastation, balm, obsession, granting and… — Florida Scott-Maxwell Devastation Copy Share Image
Another secret we carry is that though drab outside - wreckage to the eye, mirrors a mortification - inside we flame with… — Florida Scott-Maxwell Age Copy Share Image
We who are old know that age is more than a disability. It is an intense and varied experience, almost beyond our… — Florida Scott-Maxwell Age Copy Share Image
Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting, and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate.… — Florida Scott-Maxwell Age Copy Share Image
I wonder if living alone makes one more alive. No precious energy goes in disagreement or compromise. No need to augment others,… — Florida Scott-Maxwell Alive Copy Share Image
