Gail Sheehy Quotes

If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
Gail Sheehy

Change, Living, Grow

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!
Gail Sheehy

Life, Die, Before

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

Good, Successful, Understand

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

Feeling, Light, Another

Creativity can be described as letting go of certainties.
Gail Sheehy

Creativity, Letting, Described

Growth demands a temporary surrender of security.
Gail Sheehy

Growth, Security, Surrender

When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking.
Gail Sheehy

Women, Men, Cooking

If every day is an awakening, you will never grow old. You will just keep growing.
Gail Sheehy

Old, Keep, Growing

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

Life, Find, Place

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

America, Light, Few

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

Women, Sex, Same

To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist.
Gail Sheehy

Life, Good, Best

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

Possible, Changes, Deny

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

Place, Reach, Paradox

The delights of self-discovery are always available.
Gail Sheehy

Available, Delights

The perceptions of middle age have their own luminosity.
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.
Gail Sheehy

Life, Leader, Whole

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

Woman, Denial, Ability

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: November 27, 1937

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