Marriage Quotes by Gail Sheehy

I actually like getting out of my comfort zone. It shakes me up.

— Gail Sheehy

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

— Gail Sheehy

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

— Gail Sheehy

“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

I dare to do things - that's how I survive.

— 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

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

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

— Gail Sheehy

“Ignorant of our own and our mate’s inner life, we are ruled largely by external forces at this stage.”

— Gail Sheehy

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

— Gail Sheehy

“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

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

To hear how special and wonderful we are is endlessly enthralling.

— Gail Sheehy

When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking.

— Gail Sheehy

Journalism today is obviously in a major transition. Going to journalism school, learning how to write, working your way up in a little paper…

— Gail Sheehy