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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.

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.

Maggie Scarf
Sports, Anger, Order

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

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

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.

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

Pregnancy is getting company inside one's skin.

Maggie Scarf
Pregnancy, Skins, Company

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

Maggie Scarf
Wise, Long, Intimacy

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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