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It seems like, to me, somewhere between 30 and 35 is a really, really good time to turn your eggs into babies.
— Gail Sheehy
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
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
In the many times I have seen Hillary [Clinton] speak, she never fails to dazzle audiences by speaking in paragraphs, without notes.
— Gail Sheehy
Sex and older women used to be considered an oxymoron, rarely mentioned in the same breath.
— Gail Sheehy
Growth demands a temporary surrender of security.
— Gail Sheehy
I actually interviewed other people about myself, and that alerted me to the fact that I had to really investigate my memories.
— Gail Sheehy
It is a paradox that as we reach out prime, we also see there is a place where it finishes.
— Gail Sheehy
Spontaneity, the hallmark of childhood, is well worth cultivating to counteract the rigidity that may otherwise set in as we grow older.
— Gail Sheehy
The source of continuing aliveness was to find your passion and pursue it, with whole heart and single mind.
— Gail Sheehy
Character is what was yesterday and will be tomorrow.
— Gail Sheehy
When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking.
— Gail Sheehy
Husbands come and go; children come and eventually they go. Friends grow up and move away. But the one thing that's never lost is your sister.
— Gail Sheehy
The first thing one notices about Jill Abramson is her short stature. The second is her intensity.
— Gail Sheehy
The feminist spirit still lives! It shows most boldly among younger women from the millennial generation.
— Gail Sheehy
By operating on the principle of human and material obsolescence, America eats her history alive.
— Gail Sheehy
No sooner do we think we have assembled a comfortable life than we find a piece of ourselves that has no place to fit in.
— Gail Sheehy
The delights of self-discovery are always available.
— Gail Sheehy
Over the next few years the boardrooms of America are going to light up with hot flashes.
— Gail Sheehy
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
Leaders are people we as followers want to regard with awe as the fullest flowering of our own possibilities.
— Gail Sheehy
There is no more defiant denial of one man's ability to possess one woman exclusively than the prostitute who refuses to redeemed.
— Gail Sheehy
The present never ages. Each moment is like a snowflake, unique, unspoiled, unrepeatable, and can be appreciated in its surprisingness.
— Gail Sheehy
Like everyone else in the first weeks after the tragedy of 9/11, I was looking frantically for some way to help.
— Gail Sheehy
You may never know when things start to go bad, but when things are worse you know it.
— Gail Sheehy
When I was immobilized by fear, I might have a panic attack. I've had a couple of panic attacks in my life.
— Gail Sheehy
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
The perceptions of middle age have their own luminosity.
— Gail Sheehy
Jill Clayburgh's life so closely paralleled mine, I feel as though a part of me lived a little through her and died a little with her.
— Gail Sheehy
Family caregiving has become a predictable crisis. Americans are living longer and longer but dying slower and slower.
— Gail Sheehy
In rough times, pathfinders rely on work, friends, humor and prayer. They develop a support network.
— Gail Sheehy
Whether one has natural talent or not, any learning period requires the willingness to suffer uncertainty and embarrassment.
— Gail Sheehy
Transformation also means looking for ways to stop pushing yourself so hard professionally or inviting so much stress.
— Gail Sheehy
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
I'm a liberal, but I think there's so much that the private sector can do and does do.
— Gail Sheehy
By listening, by caring, by playing you back to yourself, friends ratify your better instincts and endorse your unique worth. Friends validate you.
— Gail Sheehy
It is a silly question to ask a prostitute why she does it ... These are the highest-paid 'professional' women in America.
— Gail Sheehy
Frustration is the mother of risk.
— Gail Sheehy
You don't have to feel confident to act confident. In fact, it's the most important acting job you can learn.
— Gail Sheehy
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
I dare to do things - that's how I survive.
— Gail Sheehy
A restless vitality wells up as we approach 30.
— Gail Sheehy
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
My husband, Clay Felker, died 17 years after his first cancer due to secondary conditions that developed from treatment.
— Gail Sheehy
I keep returning to the central question facing over-50 women as we move into our Second Adulthood. What are our goals for this stage in our lives?
— Gail Sheehy
The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.
— Gail Sheehy
Changes are not only possible and predictable, but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary vegetation.
— Gail Sheehy