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.
Gail Sheehy
Changes are not only possible and predictable, but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary vegetation.
Gail Sheehy
If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
Gail Sheehy
It is a silly question to ask a prostitute why she does it…. These are the highest-paid "professional" women in America.
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.
Gail Sheehy
To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist.
Gail Sheehy
We hear the haunting presentiment of a dutiful middle age in the current reluctance of young people to select any option except the one they feel will impinge upon them the least.
Gail Sheehy
When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking.
Gail Sheehy
With each passage of human growth we must shed a protective structure like a hardy crustacean. We are left exposed and vulnerable - but also yeasty and embryonic again, capable of stretching in ways we hadn't known before.
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.
Gail Sheehy
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Type:
Writer
Date of Birth:
1937-11-27
Year of Death:
Nationality:
American |
