“As I do not live in an age when rustling black skirts billow about me, and I do not carry an ebony stick to strike the floor in sharp rebuke, as this is denied me, I rap out a sentence in my note book and feel better. If a grandmother wants to put her foot down, the only safe place to do it these days is in a note book.” IfsWantFeelsBookAgeBlackFeetSafeSticksNotesRapSentencesStrikesThese DaysGrandmotherDeniedFeel BetterSkirtsRebukeSafe PlacesNote Book Author: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. To my own surprise I burst out with hot conviction. Only a few years ago I enjoyed my tranquility; now I am so disturbed by the outer world and by human quality in general that I want to put things right, as though I still owed a debt to life. I must calm down. I am far too frail to indulge in moral fervor.” WorldWantYearsHumansStillsAgeGrowsMy OwnInterestingQualityMoralQuietYears AgoHotSurpriseCalmPassionateConvictionDebtIntenseEnjoyedTranquilityPuzzlesSeventiesEightyIndulgeDisturbedSereneIndulge InFrailCalm DownOuter WorldsFervorQuiet TimeHuman Qualities Book:Measure of My Days Source: Measure of My Days
“I want to tell people approaching and perhaps fearing old age that it is a time of discovery. If they say "Of what?" I can only answer "We must find out for ourselves, otherwise it wouldn't be discovery."” PeopleIfsWantI CanAgeAnswersDiscoveryAgingOld Age Author:Florida Scott-Maxwell