Growth demands a temporary surrender of security. It may mean a giving up of familiar but limiting patterns, safe but unrewarding work, values no longer believed in, relationships that have lost their meaning. As Dostoevsky put it, "Taking a new… — Gail Sheehy Copy Share Image
According to the prevailing mythology, to be younger is to be better; therefore, we should expect to find young people in the majority of those who reflect high well-being... In fact, the one finding that registered more consistently and emphatically… — 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
