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.

In 1933 Florida Scott-Maxwell studied Jungian psychology under Carl Jung and practised as an analytical psychologist in both England and Scotland. Towards relationship (non-fiction) 1939
I Said to Myself (play) 1946. The couple divorced in 1929 and Florida Scott-Maxwell moved to London.