Florida Scott-Maxwell

“Age enrages me. It is a limitation. I am not ready for it. I am not a patient person.”

“My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject for dread.”

“Age is a high price to pay for maturity.”

“We who are old know that age is not an illness, it is a timeless gathering.”

“I must be all I can be, and if I am not, I am diminished.”

“I find I am a person of few, but deep, loyalties.”

“No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.”

“Life has changed me. I am in an army of one in a splendidly definite, and as yet uncertain, campaign.”

“I feel I am a survivor of a wreck, the wreck of old age.”

“You need only claim the events of your life to make yourself yours.”

“When I am riddled with an ache, and my limbs are unwieldy, I can be my own despair.”

“Another day, and I have not finally died. The list of my duties is short. I have only to be.”