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Growth demands a temporary surrender of security. Gail Sheehy

Growth, Security, Surrender, Temporary

People in grief need someone to walk with them without judging them. Gail Sheehy

Grief, Walk, People, Judging, Need, Them

Spontaneity, the hallmark of childhood, is well worth cultivating to counteract the rigidity that may otherwise set in as we grow older. Gail Sheehy

Childhood, Grow, Worth, Well, Older, May

We really only have two choices. Play it safe, or take a chance. For me, pulling back because of fear has always made me feel worse. Gail Sheehy

Fear, Choices, Me, Chance, Play, Feel

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

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

Change, Grow, Living, Really

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, Changes, Leave, Behind, Must

Stress overload makes us stupid. Solid research proves it. When we get overstressed, it creates a nasty chemical soup in our brains that makes it hard to pull out of the anxious depressive spiral. Gail Sheehy

Stress, Stupid, Research, Soup, Nasty

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

Day, Grow, You, Every Day, Growing, Will

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

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

Learning, Always, Available, Delights

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

Light, Door, Feeling, Skills, Closing

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

Comfort Zone, Me, Comfort, Like, Up, Out

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

Creativity, Letting Go, Go, Letting

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, People, Rich, Award, Self-Respect

It was my very good fortune to find a mentor, Clay Felker, who started my career at the 'New York Magazine' as a freelance writer when I had to quit my job at the 'Herald Tribune' to stay home with my young daughter. Gail Sheehy

Good, Daughter, Home, Job, New York, New

We see it in the body, that if you just give the body enough rest and comfort, it has remarkable self-healing capacities. Well, so does the spirit. Gail Sheehy

Rest, Body, You, Comfort, Enough, See

In the case of my husband, we found that facing a life-threatening illness prodded us to make a dramatic change in our lives. Gail Sheehy

Change, Husband, Us, Found, Dramatic

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

Good, Time, Me, Turn, Eggs, Good Time

Being a pathfinder is to be willing to risk failure and still go on. Gail Sheehy

Failure, Risk, Go, Still, Being, Willing

I dare to do things - that's how I survive. Gail Sheehy

Survive, Dare, Things, How

Be willing to shed parts of your previous life. For example, in our 20s, we wear a mask; we pretend we know more than we do. We must be willing, as we get older, to shed cocktail party phoniness and admit, 'I am who I am.' Gail Sheehy

Life, I Am, Party, Mask, Know, More

You have a new role: family caregiver. It's a role nobody applies for. You don't expect it. You won't be prepared. You probably won't even identify yourself as a caregiver. Gail Sheehy

Family, Yourself, Be Prepared, You, New

Most women have learned a great deal about how to set goals for our First Adulthood and how to roll with the punches when we hit a rough passage. But we're less prepared for our Second Adulthood as we approach life after retirement, where there are no fixed entrances or exits, and lots of sand into which it is easy to bury our heads. Gail Sheehy

Life, Goals, Women, Great, Retirement

The dream for many millennial women is to make a difference as social or political entrepreneurs. They are using the social media and marketing tools they have mastered to empower less fortunate women and direct them onto career tracks that women have traditionally avoided, like science and technology. Gail Sheehy

Women, Technology, Science, Social Media

We have to move from the unbridled pursuit of self-gain at the expense of others to recovering appreciation for what we gain by caring and sharing with one another. Gail Sheehy

Appreciation, Caring, Sharing, Move

Character is what was yesterday and will be tomorrow. Gail Sheehy

Character, Tomorrow, Yesterday, Will

I was devastated when I got the review for my first book. The book came out a couple years before the women's movement broke through, and people were putting it down, asking, 'Why does the woman in this book need to get a divorce? Why can't she just shut up and be happy?' Gail Sheehy

Women, Happy, Be Happy, Woman, Book, Why

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