Name Florida Scott-Maxwell Books The measure of my days | Role Playwright | |
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Died March 6, 1979, Exeter, United Kingdom | ||
Florida Pier Scott-Maxwell (14 September 1883 - 6 March 1979) was a playwright, author and psychologist.
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Early life
Florida Pier was born in Orange Park, Florida, and educated at home until the age of ten. She grew up in Pittsburgh, then moved to New York at age 15 to become an actress. In 1910 she married John Scott Maxwell and moved to her husband's native Scotland, where she worked for women's suffrage and as a playwright. The couple divorced in 1929 and she moved to London. In 1933 she studied Jungian psychology under Carl Jung and practised as an analytical psychologist in both England and Scotland. She died in Exeter, England. Her most famous book is The Measure of My Days (1968).
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Quotes
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
Age puzzles me I thought it was a quiet time My seventies were interesting and fairly serene - but my eighties are passionate I grow intense as I age