Maggie Scarf Quotes

• Getting angry can sometimes be like leaping into a wonderfully responsive sports car, gunning the motor, taking off at high speed and then discovering the brakes are out of order.

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  Sports, Anger, Order

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• Somehow, throughout much of life, being old seems to be something that happens to other people.

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  Inspirational, People, Happens

  Maggie Scarf (1980). “Unfinished business: pressure points in the lives of women”, Doubleday Books

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• Each of us does, in effect, strike a series of deals or compromises between the wants and longings of the inner self, and an outer environment that offers certain possibilities and sets certain limitations.

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  Self, Doe, Want

  Maggie Scarf (1980). “Unfinished business: pressure points in the lives of women”, Doubleday Books

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• Pregnancy is getting company inside one's skin.

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  Pregnancy, Skins, Company

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• Subtle and literate, The Dance of Intimacy is like a long, revealing conversation with a wise and compassionate friend.

  Maggie Scarf

  Wise, Long, Intimacy

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• the country of the aged is a land few people think very hard and seriously about before the time of life when they sense that they're arriving there. Somehow, throughout much of life, being old seems to be something that happens to other people.

  Maggie Scarf

  Country, Thinking, Land

  Maggie Scarf (1980). “Unfinished business: pressure points in the lives of women”, Doubleday Books

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