Florida Scott-Maxwell

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.

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.

There's nothing humane about the flesh of animals who have had one or two or even three improvements made in their singularly rotten lives on today's factory farms.

As a young child my attention span was, as I remember it, rather short.

I'd date someone younger or older; age doesn't matter to me. Or looks, really - it's all about maturity.