Gail Sheehy Quotes
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“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.”
“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!”
“Creativity can be described as letting go of certainties.”
“Growth demands a temporary surrender of security.”
“If every day is an awakening, you will never grow old. You will just keep growing.”
“It is a paradox that as we reach out prime, we also see there is a place where it finishes.”
“It is a silly question to ask a prostitute why she does it. These are the highest-paid "professional" women in America.”
“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.”
“Over the next few years the boardrooms of America are going to light up with hot flashes.”
“Sex and older women used to be considered an oxymoron, rarely mentioned in the same breath.”
“The delights of self-discovery are always available.”
“The perceptions of middle age have their own luminosity.”
“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.”
“To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist.”
“When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking.”
“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.”
Gail Sheehy Bio:
Gail Sheehy (born November 27, 1937 in Mamaroneck, New York) is an American writer and lecturer, most notable for her books on life and the life cycle. She is also a contributor to the magazine Vanity Fair.
Her fifth book, Passages, has been called "a road map of adult life". Several of her books continue the theme of passages through life's stages, including menopause and what she calls "Second Adulthood", including Pathfinders, Spirit of Survival, and Menopause: The Silent Passage. Her latest book, Sex and the Seasoned Woman, reveals a hidden cultural phenomenon: a surge of vitality in women's sex and love lives after age fifty. She has also authored a biography of Hillary Rodham Clinton titled Hillary's Choice. Her novel Middletown, America is being adapted as a TV miniseries.
Sheehy attended the University of Vermont where she was a member of Alpha Chi Omega sorority and received a graduate degree in journalism from Columbia University.
She married publisher Clay Felker in 1984.
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