children may need challenges and high-risk conditions in order to develop the self-generated immunity to trauma that characterizes survivors. To be tested… — 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
“There is nothing wrong with projecting this false self to the outside world during these early striving years, so long as it… — 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
“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
My research offers impressive evidence that we feel better when we attempt to make our world better...to have a purpose beyond one's… — 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
When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking. — Gail Sheehy Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
