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Florida Scott-Maxwell

"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."

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Donna Grant

"Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age."

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Donna Grant

"Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age."

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Donna Grant

"No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating."

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Donna Grant

"The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age."

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Donna Grant

"Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age."

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Donna Grant

"Age in just a number. It carries no weight. The real weight is in impacts. The truth is that you can do it at any age. Get up and be willing to leave a mark."

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Donna Grant

"Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought."

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Donna Grant

"As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of 'do it yourself.'"

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"Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance."

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Donna Grant

"The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth."

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Florida Scott-Maxwell
"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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Florida Scott-Maxwell
"It is not easy to be sure that being yourself is worth the trouble, but we do know it is our sacred duty."

Being

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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."

Life

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"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."

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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."

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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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