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Gail Sheehy Quotes
Gail Sheehy
American
Writer
Born:
Nov 27
,
1937
First
Life
Me
Think
Women
You
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Adapting to our Second Adulthood is not all about the money. It requires thinking about how to find a new locus of identity or how to adjust to a spouse who stops working and who may loll, enjoying coffee and reading the paper online while you're still commuting.
Gail Sheehy
You
Money
Coffee
Reading
Thinking
Adapting
Our
Paper
Adjust
Find
About
Online
Adulthood
New
Identity
Spouse
How
Still
May
Stops
While
Working
Requires
Commuting
Who
Enjoying
Second
Very few women manage to have it all; certainly not all at once.
Gail Sheehy
Women
Few
Once
Very
Manage
Few Women
Certainly
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
You
Yourself
Be Prepared
Nobody
New
Identify
Expect
Role
Even
Prepared
If you begin to think you are solely responsible for keeping your loved one alive and safe, you will eventually find yourself playing God. This phase can develop into an unhealthy, codependent relationship.
Gail Sheehy
God
Relationship
You
Yourself
Will
Think
Solely
Alive
Responsible
Find
Develop
Safe
Begin
Loved
Loved One
Unhealthy
Your
Eventually
Keeping
Phase
Playing
Married at 23, a mother at 24, and blindsided by divorce at 28, I found myself struggling, like many young women I meet today, to strike a balance between my personal life and my career.
Gail Sheehy
Life
Today
Myself
Balance
Women
Mother
Young
Personal Life
Meet
Strike
Married
Struggling
Divorce
Between
Like
Personal
Young Women
Many
Found
Career
You don't have to feel confident to act confident. In fact, it's the most important acting job you can learn.
Gail Sheehy
You
Job
Important
Fact
Feel
Most
Learn
Confident
The Most Important
In Fact
Act
Acting
Back in 1968, when I was 30, my entire life blew up. I had a life plan, and it collapsed for no rational reason.
Gail Sheehy
Life
Back
Collapsed
Entire
Entire Life
Rational
Had
Blew
Up
Plan
Reason
Being a pathfinder is to be willing to risk failure and still go on.
Gail Sheehy
Failure
Willing
Risk
Still
Go
Being
In rough times, pathfinders rely on work, friends, humor and prayer. They develop a support network.
Gail Sheehy
Work
Prayer
Humor
Network
Rely
Develop
Support
Friends
Times
Rough
Rough Times
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