Maxine quotes:

After a good night sleep, I wake up the next day, and I say, 'Come on, Tea Party, let's get it on.'

All I'm looking for is a guy who'll do what I want, when I want, for as long as I want, and then go away. Or wait nearby, like a Dust Buster, charged up and ready when needed.

Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish, and the old buzzard won't be hanging around, underfoot, all weekend.

Nobody supports me at the expense of his own adventure. Then I get bitter: I am not loved enough to be supported. That I am not a burden has to compensate for the sad envy when I look at women loved enough to be supported. Even now China wraps double binds around my feet.

Love is like a roller coaster. When it's good, you don't want to stop and when it's not... you want to throw up.

I'll tell you the secret to good teaching: make possible an experience without predetermining what that experience will be.

My favorite birthday game is Pin the Cleanup on the guests.

Take every birthday with a grain of salt. This works much better if the salt accompanies a large margarita

I do my housework in the nude. It gives me an incentive to clean the mirrors as quickly as possible.

Imagination is the capacity to think of things as if they could be otherwise.

The key to a nice-looking lawn is a good mower. I recommend one who is muscular and shirtless.

The trouble with bucket seats is that not everybody has the same size bucket.

To look at possibility is to be free.

When you go to make a purchase, take a look at the product and ask yourself: 'am I being cheated?' If a product from a 'fast fashion' chain is falling apart before you've even bought it, it's not a deal. It's the fast-fashion company trying to get you to buy something that is quick on trend but slow on quality.

Without imagination, you live in a small room with the windows closed. Imagination opens the windows and shows us landscapes, horizons that we would not otherwise perceive"¦I want education to empower people to see possibility.