All Gail Sheehy Quotes
- Very few women manage to have it all; certainly not all at once. All
- Career-driven millennials are strategic about working obsessively while they are single and earning enough money to afford advanced education. Most are patient enough to wait… Advanced
- Family caregiving has become a predictable crisis. Americans are living longer and longer but dying slower and slower. American
- If you begin to think you are solely responsible for keeping your loved one alive and safe, you will eventually find yourself playing God. This… Alive
- Stress overload makes us stupid. Solid research proves it. When we get overstressed, it creates a nasty chemical soup in our brains that makes it… Anxious
- We have to move from the unbridled pursuit of self-gain at the expense of others to recovering appreciation for what we gain by caring and… Appreciation
- I actually like getting out of my comfort zone. It shakes me up. Actually Like
- Married at 23, a mother at 24, and blindsided by divorce at 28, I found myself struggling, like many young women I meet today, to… Balance
- We really only have two choices. Play it safe, or take a chance. For me, pulling back because of fear has always made me feel… Always Made
- My husband, Clay Felker, died 17 years after his first cancer due to secondary conditions that developed from treatment. Cancer
- Back in 1968, when I was 30, my entire life blew up. I had a life plan, and it collapsed for no rational reason. Blew
- Being a pathfinder is to be willing to risk failure and still go on. Failure
- In rough times, pathfinders rely on work, friends, humor and prayer. They develop a support network. Develop
- Creativity can be described as letting go of certainties. Certainties
- Over the next few years the boardrooms of America are going to light up with hot flashes. America
- All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one… All
- We hear the haunting presentiment of a dutiful middle age in the current reluctance of young people to select any option except the one they… Age
- It is a silly question to ask a prostitute why she does it.. These are the highest-paid professional women in America. America
- Changes are not predictable; but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary vegetation. Accomplice