Florida Scott-Maxwell

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.

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.

Most reporters who come to me get their stories directly from press releases. Very few do what one would consider to be their professional duty.

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.

In centering prayer, the sacred word is not the object of the attention but rather the expression of the intention of the will.