Gail Sheehy quotes

If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living. (Gail Sheehy)
Growth demands a temporary surrender of security. View quote
Gail Sheehy
If every day is an awakening, you will never grow old. You will just keep growing. View quote
Gail Sheehy
Would that there were an award for people who come to understand the concept of enough. Good enough. Successful enough. Thin enough. Rich enough. Socially responsible enough. When you have self-respect, you have enough. View quote
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To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist. View quote
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The delights of self-discovery are always available. View quote
Gail Sheehy
Changes are not only possible and predictable, but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary vegetation. View quote
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When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking. View quote
Gail Sheehy
Ah, mastery... what a profoundly satisfying feeling when one finally gets on top of a new set of skills... and then sees the light under the new door those skills can open, even as another door is closing. View quote
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No sooner do we think we have assembled a comfortable life than we find a piece of ourselves that has no place to fit in. View quote
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Sex and older women used to be considered an oxymoron, rarely mentioned in the same breath. (Gail Sheehy)
The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests. View quote
Gail Sheehy
Being a pathfinder is to be willing to risk failure and still go on. View quote
Gail Sheehy
It is a paradox that as we reach out prime, we also see there is a place where it finishes. View quote
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The perceptions of middle age have their own luminosity. View quote
Gail Sheehy
In my memoir, I admit that I've been as fearful of success as of failure. In fact, when 'Passages' was published, I so dreaded bad reviews that I ran away to Italy with a girlfriend and our children to hide out. View quote
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People in grief need someone to walk with them without judging them. View quote
Gail Sheehy
Creativity can be described as letting go of certainties. View quote
Gail Sheehy
There is no more defiant denial of one man's ability to possess one woman exclusively than the prostitute who refuses to redeemed. View quote
Gail Sheehy