Gail Sheehy Quotes

American - Writer Born: November 27, 1937

Growth demands a temporary surrender of security. Gail Sheehy

Growth, Security, Surrender, Temporary

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, Hard, Us

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

Technology, Women, Science, Social Media

Career-driven millennials are strategic about working obsessively while they are single and earning enough money to afford advanced education. Most are patient enough to wait until 30 or later to develop their dream. Gail Sheehy

Education, Money, Enough, Dream, Wait

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

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

Grief, Walk, People, Someone, Judging

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, May, Spontaneity

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, Award, Rich, Enough, You

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, Leave, Changes, Behind, Most

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

Creativity, Letting Go, Go, Letting

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, Me, Choices, Chance, Feel, Play

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, New, Feeling, Closing, Top

You don't have to feel confident to act confident. In fact, it's the most important acting job you can learn. Gail Sheehy

Job, Confident, Feel, Important, You

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

Women, Sex, Older Women, Same, Breath

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

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

Learning, Always, Self-Discovery

One of the ways we women often handicap ourselves is thinking that once we've made a decision or a commitment, we can't change. Gail Sheehy

Change, Women, Decision, Commitment

Family caregiving has become a predictable crisis. Americans are living longer and longer but dying slower and slower. Gail Sheehy

Family, Living, Dying, Crisis, Become

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

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

In rough times, pathfinders rely on work, friends, humor and prayer. They develop a support network. Gail Sheehy

Work, Humor, Prayer, Support, Friends

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

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

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

In my memoir, I admit that I've been as fearful of success as of failure. In fact, when 'Passages' was published, I so dreaded bad reviews that I ran away to Italy with a girlfriend and our children to hide out. Gail Sheehy

Success, Failure, Children, Hide, Admit

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, Admit

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

Place, Reach, See, Out, Paradox, Where

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

Caring, Appreciation, Sharing, Others

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

Women, Cooking, Men, Reach, Go, Right

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