Gail Sheehy

“Many people find it easier to live together when that commitment is voluntarily renewed. The”

— Gail Sheehy

Married at 23, a mother at 24, and blindsided by divorce at 28, I found myself struggling, like many young women I…

— Gail Sheehy

Speed as a drug disorganizes the personality; speed as the goal of information dissemination commits a subtler crime. People are mainlining our…

— Gail Sheehy

I did not give my daughter the kind of childhood anybody would want. The vision of the divided loyalty between a mother…

— 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

Would that there were an award for people who come to understand the concept of enough. Good enough. Successful enough. Thin enough.…

— Gail Sheehy

“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

My husband, Clay Felker, died 17 years after his first cancer due to secondary conditions that developed from treatment.

— Gail Sheehy

If you begin to think you are solely responsible for keeping your loved one alive and safe, you will eventually find yourself…

— Gail Sheehy

Growth demands a temporary surrender of security.

— Gail Sheehy

“If there’s something about me you don’t like, just tell me,” says the newlywed anxious to please. “I’ll change it.” If he…

— Gail Sheehy

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

— Gail Sheehy

“Resolving the issues of one passage does not insulate us forever. There will be other tricky channels ahead, and we learn by…

— 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

We see it in the body, that if you just give the body enough rest and comfort, it has remarkable self-healing capacities.…

— Gail Sheehy

“We are utterly convinced that all our notions spring full blown, as if by magic, from our own unique selves. At”

— Gail Sheehy

Very few women manage to have it all; certainly not all at once.

— Gail Sheehy

Eventually, all mentor-disciple relationships are meant to pull apart, usually sometime in the mid-30s. Those who hang on, eventually the mentor drops…

— Gail Sheehy

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

— Gail Sheehy

This is a woman [Hillary Clinton] who for many of her 52 years never cared a fig about her appearance, but in…

— Gail Sheehy

“No matter how different the forms we choose, our concentration during the Trying Twenties is on mastering what we feel we are…

— 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

Young women who I think do the best job of balancing family life and a big career start businesses or work for…

— Gail Sheehy

One of the ways we women often handicap ourselves is thinking that once we've made a decision or a commitment, we can't…

— Gail Sheehy

Be willing to shed parts of your previous life. For example, in our 20s, we wear a mask; we pretend we know…

— Gail Sheehy