“No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.”
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Florida Pier Scott-Maxwell was born in Orange Park, Florida, on September 24, 1883. She had lessons at home until she was ten, briefly attended public school in Pittsburgh, then went back to private lessons, and finally gave it all up to go on the stage at sixteen. At twenty she abandonded that career and began another as a writer of short stories. In 1910 she married John Maxwell Scott-Maxwell and went to live in his native Scotland. In 1929 they divorced and she moved to London. Her major pursuits were working for women's suffrage, writing plays, and tending her flowers and four children. In 1933 she began training for still another career as an analytical psychologist, studying under Carl Jung, later practicing in both Scotland and England.
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“No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.”
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“Life does not accommodate you; it shatters you. Every seed destroys its container, or else there would be no fruition.”
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“My kitchen linoleum is so black and shiny that I waltz while I wait for the kettle to boil. This pleasure is for the old who live alone.”
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“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.”
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“It is not easy to be sure that being yourself is worth the trouble, but we do know it is our sacred duty.”
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