Gail Sheehy

When you have self-respect, you have enough.

— Gail Sheehy

No one can control the aging process or the trajectory of illness.

— 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

“What really happened with Serena and Jeb is that each was able to be strong in an area in which the other…

— Gail Sheehy

Being a pathfinder is to be willing to risk failure and still go on.

— Gail Sheehy

The present never ages. Each moment is like a snowflake, unique, unspoiled, unrepeatable, and can be appreciated in its surprisingness.

— Gail Sheehy

Family caregiving has become a predictable crisis. Americans are living longer and longer but dying slower and slower.

— 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

To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist.

— 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…

— Gail Sheehy

“Doubts immobilize. Believing that we are independent and competent enough to master the external tasks constantly fortifies us in our attempts to…

— Gail Sheehy

“The illusions of the twenties, however, may be essential to infuse our first commitments with excitement and intensity, and to sustain us…

— Gail Sheehy

“As men and women enter midlife, the tables begin to turn. Many men I interviewed found themselves wanting to learn how to…

— Gail Sheehy

By listening, by caring, by playing you back to yourself, friends ratify your better instincts and endorse your unique worth. Friends validate…

— Gail Sheehy

Adolescents are like cockroaches: They come out the minute you leave town, crawl the walls, feed indiscriminately, reproduce alarmingly unless drugged, and…

— Gail Sheehy

We hear the haunting presentiment of a dutiful middle age in the current reluctance of young people to select any option except…

— Gail Sheehy

It is Hillary's [Clinton] star power that radiates to every corner of the ballroom. New York bigwigs, such as financial-media impresario Michael…

— Gail Sheehy

I know I'm never going to probably see the Taj Mahal or, you know, climb Mt. Everest, but I can still maybe…

— Gail Sheehy

As we reach midlife in the middle thirties or early forties, we are not prepared for the idea that time can run…

— Gail Sheehy

The dream for many millennial women is to make a difference as social or political entrepreneurs. They are using the social media…

— Gail Sheehy

“Further discomfort from these new realities afflicts men who expected to reach a certain level by dint of their white maleness but…

— Gail Sheehy

If you're the person living closest to the parent who's going to need help, and you take on the whole role of…

— Gail Sheehy

We must be willing to change chairs if we want to grow. There is no permanent compatibility between a chair and a…

— Gail Sheehy

“There is nothing wrong with projecting this false self to the outside world during these early striving years, so long as it…

— Gail Sheehy

The work of adult life is not easy. As in childhood, each step presents not only new tasks of development but requires…

— Gail Sheehy

“THE TRYING TWENTIES CONFRONTS US WITH THE QUESTION of how to take hold in the adult world. Incandescent with our molten energies,…

— 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

If every day is an awakening, you will never grow old. You will just keep growing.

— Gail Sheehy

Sex and older women used to be considered an oxymoron, rarely mentioned in the same breath.

— 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

The feminist spirit still lives! It shows most boldly among younger women from the millennial generation.

— Gail Sheehy

No sooner do we think we have assembled a comfortable life than we find a piece of ourselves that has no place…

— 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

The [Hillary] Clinton campaign was still operating with a White House mentality.

— 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

Transformation also means looking for ways to stop pushing yourself so hard professionally or inviting so much stress.

— 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

“THE SHOULDS ARE defined by the family destiny, the press of the culture, and/or the prejudices of our peers.”

— Gail Sheehy

“Perfect” is that person we imbue with the capacity to enliven and support our vision or the person we believe in and…

— Gail Sheehy

The first thing one notices about Jill Abramson is her short stature. The second is her intensity.

— Gail Sheehy