Gail Sheehy Quotes
"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
(Related: Life)
"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
(Related: People, Successful, Self)
"To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist."
- Gail Sheehy
(Related: Life, May)
"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
(Related: Life, Leader, Action, Habit, Lies, Meeting, Tests)
"The perceptions of middle age have their own luminosity."
- Gail Sheehy
(Related: Age, Middle age, Perceptions)
"The delights of self-discovery are always available."
- Gail Sheehy
(Related: Self)
"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
(Related: Feeling, Light, Open)
"Over the next few years the boardrooms of America are going to light up with hot flashes."
- Gail Sheehy
(Related: America, Light, Years)
"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
(Related: Life, Melancholy)
"It is a paradox that as we reach out prime, we also see there is a place where it finishes."
- Gail Sheehy
(Related: Paradox)
"If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living."
- Gail Sheehy
(Related: Change, Living)
"If every day is an awakening, you will never grow old. You will just keep growing."
- Gail Sheehy
(Related: Day, Old, Will)
"Growth demands a temporary surrender of security."
- Gail Sheehy
(Related: Growth, Security, Surrender)
"Creativity can be described as letting go of certainties."
- Gail Sheehy
(Related: Creativity)
"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
(Related: Ability, Denial, Man, Woman)
"Sex and older women used to be considered an oxymoron, rarely mentioned in the same breath."
- Gail Sheehy
(Related: Women, Sex)
"When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking."
- Gail Sheehy
(Related: Men, Women, Cooking, Right)