Gail Sheehy
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Biography
Gail Sheehy was an American author, journalist, and lecturer. She was the author of seventeen books and numerous high-profile articles for magazines such as New York and Vanity Fair.
"In rough times, pathfinders rely on work, friends, humor and prayer. They develop a support network."
"To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist."
"Creativity could be described as letting go of certainties."
"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."
"The perceptions of middle age have their own luminosity."
"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; and when you have enough, you have self-respect."
"When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking."
"To hear how special and wonderful we are is endlessly enthralling."
"When men reach their sixties and retire they go to pieces. Women just go right on cooking."
"Changes are not only possible and predictable but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary vegetation."
"Growth demands a temporary surrender of security."
"Changes are not predictable but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary vegetation."
"To hear how special and wonderful we are is endlessly enthralling."
"To hear how special and wonderful we are is endlessly enthralling."
"To hear how special and wonderful we are is endlessly enthralling."
"To hear how special and wonderful we are is endlessly enthralling."
"To hear how special and wonderful we are is endlessly enthralling."
"To hear how special and wonderful we are is endlessly enthralling."
"To hear how special and wonderful we are is endlessly enthralling."
"To hear how special and wonderful we are is endlessly enthralling."
"The source of continuing aliveness was to find your passion and pursue it with whole heart and single mind."
"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."
"Transformation also means looking for ways to stop pushing yourself so hard professionally or inviting so much stress."
"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."
"Being a pathfinder is to be willing to risk failure and still go on."