“My kitchen linoleum is so black and shiny that I waltz while I wait fo...” — Florida Scott-Maxwell Quote

“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.”

“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.”

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

“You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even going and coming.”

“I can't really define it in sexual terms alone although our sexuality is so energizing why not enjoy it too?”

“The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness.”