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.

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.

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.

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

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