35 Gail Sheehy Quotes for You to Enjoy

Gail Sheehy

American Writer

Born: Nov 27, 1937

First Life Me Think Women You

Related authors: Dale Carnegie Denis Waitley Dr. Seuss H. L. Mencken Napoleon Hill Ray Bradbury W. E. B. Du Bois William Arthur Ward

Growth demands a temporary surrender of security. Gail Sheehy

Surrender Security Temporary Demands Growth

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

Grief People Walk Someone Judging Without Them Need

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

Me Fear Made Back Worse Only Take Take A Chance Feel Safe Because Always Really Choices Play Chance Two Pulling

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

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 Feeling Finally Top Those Sees Open New Another Mastery Gets Closing Door Then Skills Even Satisfying Profoundly Set

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 Example Mask Party Older Cocktail Our Willing Must Pretend Wear Admit More Previous Previous Life For Example Know Shed Parts Am Than Get Your Who

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 Self-Respect You People Rich Enough Responsible Would Come Concept Understand Were Successful Who Award Thin Socially

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

Women Cooking Men Retire Reach Pieces Go Sixties Right

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

Dare How Survive Things

I found that female pathfinders generally integrate characteristics commonly associated with being women - like the capacity to be intimate - with 'male' ones like ambition and courage. Gail Sheehy

Courage Women Ambition Intimate Characteristics Generally Like Female Integrate Male Being Commonly Capacity Found Associated

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

Age Own Perceptions Middle Middle Age

I do think taking the 20s to take the most chances you can is important, because you're not going to hurt anyone else during that time. And if you do have a partner, you need a couple years to rehearse that relationship. Gail Sheehy

I found the happiest woman in America is between 50 and 55, is happily married, has made significant progress in her career, and lives in a community where she can easily exercise outside. But the most important single thing was she had her last child before she was 35. Gail Sheehy

Woman Progress Made Important Single Before Community Easily Significant Married Outside Had Between Most She Exercise Single Thing Child America The Most Important Where Happiest Happily Found Lives Her Thing Last Career

It was so naive to think that there was nothing interesting that happened after 55. Come on, there's a whole second adulthood! Gail Sheehy

Nothing Think Adulthood Naive Come After Happened Interesting Whole Second

I'm a liberal, but I think there's so much that the private sector can do and does do. Gail Sheehy

Think Liberal Sector Does Private Private Sector Much

I've had the experience of having a book praised but then it doesn't sell. Or not praised but then it sells. Gail Sheehy

Experience Book Having Had Praised Sell Sells Then

If you're the person living closest to the parent who's going to need help, and you take on the whole role of primary caregiver, you can be pretty sure your sibling who lives farthest away is going to call you and say, 'You don't know what you're doing.' Because they're not on the spot, and they probably feel guilty. Gail Sheehy

You Living Say Guilty Pretty Parent Take Primary Feel Know Call Sure Because Spot Doing Role Person Closest Going Your Help Who Farthest Whole Away Lives Need Sibling

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