Gail Sheehy Quotes - Page 2

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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.

  Gail Sheehy

  Inspirational, Thinking, Self

  Gail Sheehy (2013). “Passages: Predictable Crises of Adult Life”, p.118, Penguin

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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.

  Gail Sheehy

  Change, Unnecessary, Deny

  Gail Sheehy (1977). “Passages: Predictable Crises of Adult Life”, Bantam

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• You may never know when things start to go bad, but when things are worse you know it.

  Gail Sheehy

  May, Trouble, Knows

  Gail Sheehy (1971). “Speed is of the Essence”, Richmond Hill, Ont. : Simon & Schuster of Canada

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• The fundamental steps of expansion that will open a person, over time, to the full flowering of his or her individuality are the same for both genders. But men and women are rarely in the same place struggling with the same questions at the same age.

  Gail Sheehy

  Struggle, Flower, Men

  Gail Sheehy (1977). “Passages: Predictable Crises of Adult Life”, Bantam

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• A seasoned woman is spicy. She has been marinated in life experiences. Like a complex wine, she can be alternately sweet, tart, sparkling, mellow. She is both maternal and playful. Assured, alluring, and resourceful. She is less likely to have an agenda than a young woman-no biological clock tick-tocking beside her lover's bed, no campaign to lead him to the altar, no rescue fantasies. The seasoned woman knows who she is. She could be any one of us, as long a she is committed to living fully and passionately in the second half of her life, despite failures and false starts.

  Gail Sheehy

  Sweet, Women, Wine

  Gail Sheehy (2006). “Sex and the Seasoned Woman: Pursuing the Passionate Life”, Random House Incorporated

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• Frustration is the mother of risk.

  Gail Sheehy

  Mother, Frustration, Risk

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• We must be willing to change chairs if we want to grow. There is no permanent compatibility between a chair and a person. And there is no one right chair. What is right at one stage may be restricting at another or too soft. During the passage from one stage to another, we will be between two chairs. Wobbling no doubt, but developing.

  Gail Sheehy

  Growing Up, Two, Doubt

  Gail Sheehy (1977). “Passages: Predictable Crises of Adult Life”, Bantam

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• Democratization is not democracy; it is a slogan for the temporary liberalization handed down from an autocrat. Glasnost is not free speech; only free speech, constitutionally guaranteed, is free speech.

  Gail Sheehy

  Democracy, Speech, Glasnost

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• The delights of self-discovery are always available.

  Gail Sheehy

  Women, Caring, Discovery

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• 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.

  Gail Sheehy

  Inspirational, Leadership, Military

  Gail Sheehy (1990). “The man who changed the world: the lives of Mikhail S. Gorbachev”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• When you have self-respect, you have enough.

  Gail Sheehy

  Self Esteem, Self Respect, Respect Yourself

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My mother had demonstrated that the best way to defeat the numbing ambivalence of middle age is to surprise yourself - by pulling off some cartwheel of thought or action never even imagined at a younger age.

  Gail Sheehy

  Mother, Age, Way

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• Sex and older women used to be considered an oxymoron, rarely mentioned in the same breath.

  Gail Sheehy

  Sex, Used, Oxymoron

  Gail Sheehy (2006). “Sex and the Seasoned Woman: Pursuing the Passionate Life”, Random House Incorporated

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• By listening, by caring, by playing you back to yourself, friends ratify your better instincts and endorse your unique worth. Friends validate you.

  Gail Sheehy

  Friendship, Caring, Unique

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• According to the prevailing mythology, to be younger is to be better; therefore, we should expect to find young people in the majority of those who reflect high well-being... In fact, the one finding that registered more consistently and emphatically than any other in the course of my research was this: Older is better.

  Gail Sheehy

  People, Age, Majority

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• Speed as a drug disorganizes the personality; speed as the goal of information dissemination commits a subtler crime. People are mainlining our words. We rarely read of the rational alternatives, only of the commands that all must change or else. This is a prescription for public panic.

  Gail Sheehy

  People, Goal, Personality

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• Young women who I think do the best job of balancing family life and a big career start businesses or work for themselves. That's the best way of being in charge of your life.

  Gail Sheehy

  Thinking, Family Life, Young Women

  "'You Don't Have to Lose Yourself': A Conversation with Gail Sheehy". The Amazon Book Review Interview, www.amazonbookreview.com. September 1, 2014.

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• Journalism today is obviously in a major transition. Going to journalism school, learning how to write, working your way up in a little paper in Decatur, Georgia and then moving to Atlanta and then maybe to New York: it's just over. You have to have a whole other set of skills now. You have to be a videographer, you have to do social media. You can't do a long, thoughtful, insightful piece if you don't have the time to do reporting, particularly reporting around somebody who doesn't want to be known or an issue that doesn't want to reveal itself.

  Gail Sheehy

  Moving, Writing, School

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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• A restless vitality wells up as we approach 30.

  Gail Sheehy

  Vitality, Restless, Wells

  Gail Sheehy (2013). “Passages: Predictable Crises of Adult Life”, p.149, Penguin

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• It is a paradox that as we reach out prime, we also see there is a place where it finishes.

  Gail Sheehy

  Stars, Paradox, Prime

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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.

  Gail Sheehy

  Men, Denial, Prostitution

  Gail Sheehy (1973). “Hustling: Prostitution in Our Wide Open Society”, New York : Delacorte Press

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• The perceptions of middle age have their own luminosity.

  Gail Sheehy

  Birthday, Perception, Age

  Gail Sheehy (1977). “Passages: Predictable Crises of Adult Life”, Bantam

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• In the many times I have seen Hillary [Clinton] speak, she never fails to dazzle audiences by speaking in paragraphs, without notes.

  Gail Sheehy

  Dazzle, Speak, Failing

  Source: www.vanityfair.com

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• The [Hillary] Clinton campaign was still operating with a White House mentality.

  Gail Sheehy

  White, House, Campaigns

  Source: www.vanityfair.com

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• It is Hillary's [Clinton] star power that radiates to every corner of the ballroom. New York bigwigs, such as financial-media impresario Michael Bloomberg, attorney and labor mediator Theodore Kheel, and District Attorney Robert Morgenthau, crane to see her.

  Gail Sheehy

  Stars, New York, Media

  Source: www.vanityfair.com

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