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 Copy Share Image
A seasoned woman is spicy. She has been marinated in life experiences. Like a complex wine, she can be alternately sweet, tart,… — Gail Sheehy Copy Share Image
As we reach midlife in the middle thirties or early forties, we are not prepared for the idea that time can run… — Gail Sheehy Copy Share Image
Most women have learned a great deal about how to set goals for our First Adulthood and how to roll with the… — Gail Sheehy Copy Share Image
With the only certainty in our daily existence being change, and a rate of change growing always faster in a kind of… — Gail Sheehy Copy Share Image
If menopause is the silent passage, 'male menopause' is the unspeakable passage. It is fraught with secrecy, shame, and denial. It is… — Gail Sheehy Copy Share Image
The work of adult life is not easy. As in childhood, each step presents not only new tasks of development but requires… — Gail Sheehy Copy Share Image
If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we are not really living. Growth demands a temporary surrender of… — Gail Sheehy Copy Share Image
“The illusions of the twenties, however, may be essential to infuse our first commitments with excitement and intensity, and to sustain us… — Gail Sheehy Copy Share Image
The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit… — Gail Sheehy Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Married at 23, a mother at 24, and blindsided by divorce at 28, I found myself struggling, like many young women I… — Gail Sheehy Copy Share Image
“The tasks of this period are as enormous as they are exhilarating: To shape a dream, that vision of one’s own possibilities… — Gail Sheehy Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Young women who I think do the best job of balancing family life and a big career start businesses or work for… — Gail Sheehy Copy Share Image
Be willing to shed parts of your previous life. For example, in our 20s, we wear a mask; we pretend we know… — Gail Sheehy Copy Share Image
No sooner do we think we have assembled a comfortable life than we find a piece of ourselves that has no place… — Gail Sheehy Copy Share Image
“Many of us are not consciously aware of such fears. With enough surface bravado to fool the people we meet, we fool… — Gail Sheehy Copy Share Image
A seasoned woman is spicy. She has been marinated in life experiences. Like a complex wine, she can be alternately sweet, tart,… — Gail Sheehy Copy Share Image
This is something caregivers have to understand: You have to ask for help. You have to realize that you deserve to ask… — Gail Sheehy Copy Share Image
“It is frightening to step off onto the treacherous footbridge leading to the second half of life. We can’t take everything with… — Gail Sheehy Copy Share Image
“Further discomfort from these new realities afflicts men who expected to reach a certain level by dint of their white maleness but who now… — Gail Sheehy Copy Share Image
Spontaneity, the hallmark of childhood, is well worth cultivating to counteract the rigidity that may otherwise set in as we grow older. — Gail Sheehy Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The first thing one notices about Jill Abramson is her short stature. The second is her intensity. — Gail Sheehy Copy Share Image
“Ignorant of our own and our mate’s inner life, we are ruled largely by external forces at this stage.” — Gail Sheehy Copy Share Image
Family caregiving has become a predictable crisis. Americans are living longer and longer but dying slower and slower. — Gail Sheehy Copy Share Image
“The other real forces urging young people into marriages generally sift down to one of the following: the need for safety, the need to… — Gail Sheehy Copy Share Image
I'd visually have that idea. I'm diving off the end of the diving board. I'm not going to be worried about if I'm going… — Gail Sheehy Copy Share Image
