Gail Sheehy Quotes

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Gail Sheehy

Profession : Writer

Birth : November 27, 1937

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.

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Changes are not only possible and predictable, but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary vegetation.

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Over the next few years the boardrooms of America are going to light up with hot flashes.

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I actually interviewed other people about myself, and that alerted me to the fact that I had to really investigate my memories.

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Career-driven millennials are strategic about working obsessively while they are single and earning enough money to afford advanced education. Most are patient enough to wait until 30 or later to develop their dream.

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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!

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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.

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There is no more defiant denial of one man's ability to possess one woman exclusively than the prostitute who refuses to redeemed.

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I actually like getting out of my comfort zone. It shakes me up.

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I do think taking the 20s to take the most chances you can is important, because you're not going to hurt anyone else during that time. And if you do have a partner, you need a couple years to rehearse that relationship.

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I found the happiest woman in America is between 50 and 55, is happily married, has made significant progress in her career, and lives in a community where she can easily exercise outside. But the most important single thing was she had her last child before she was 35.

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Eventually, all mentor-disciple relationships are meant to pull apart, usually sometime in the mid-30s. Those who hang on, eventually the mentor drops the disciple, and that's no fun.

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It seems like, to me, somewhere between 30 and 35 is a really, really good time to turn your eggs into babies.

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Character is what was yesterday and will be tomorrow.

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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.

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It was so naive to think that there was nothing interesting that happened after 55. Come on, there's a whole second adulthood!

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When I was immobilized by fear, I might have a panic attack. I've had a couple of panic attacks in my life.

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I know I'm never going to probably see the Taj Mahal or, you know, climb Mt. Everest, but I can still maybe influence peoples' way of thinking by a story that I do, by something I learn about the world.

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I'm a liberal, but I think there's so much that the private sector can do and does do.

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Like everyone else in the first weeks after the tragedy of 9/11, I was looking frantically for some way to help.

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