Gail Sheehy Quotes

The present never ages. Each moment is like a snowflake, unique, unspoiled, unrepeatable, and can be appreciated in its surprisingness.

If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we are not really living.

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

Growth demands a temporary surrender of security.

Although there are many trial marriages... there is no such thing as a trial child.

With each passage of human growth we must shed a protective structure . We are left exposed and vulnerable - but also yeasty and embryonic again, capable of stretching in ways we hadn't known before.

Husbands come and go; children come and eventually they go. Friends grow up and move away. But the one thing that's never lost is your sister.

The source of continuing aliveness was to find your passion and pursue it, with whole heart and single mind.

If every day is an awakening, you will never grow old. You will just keep growing.

Changes are not only possible and predictable, but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary vegetation.

Transformation also means looking for ways to stop pushing yourself so hard professionally or inviting so much stress.

Whether one has natural talent or not, any learning period requires the willingness to suffer uncertainty and embarrassment.

No sooner do we think we have assembled a comfortable life than we find a piece of ourselves that has no place to fit in.

When you have self-respect, you have enough.

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

There is no more defiant denial of one man's ability to possess one woman exclusively than the prostitute who refuses to redeemed.

The delights of self-discovery are always available.

The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.

You may never know when things start to go bad, but when things are worse you know it.

It is a paradox that as we reach out prime, we also see there is a place where it finishes.

A restless vitality wells up as we approach 30.

Frustration is the mother of risk.

The perceptions of middle age have their own luminosity.

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

Being a pathfinder is to be willing to risk failure and still go on.

Men are not given awards and promotions for bravery in intimacy.

The [Hillary] Clinton campaign was still operating with a White House mentality.

In the many times I have seen Hillary [Clinton] speak, she never fails to dazzle audiences by speaking in paragraphs, without notes.

by operating on the principle of human and material obsolescence, America eats her history alive.

Adolescents are like cockroaches: They come out the minute you leave town, crawl the walls, feed indiscriminately, reproduce alarmingly unless drugged, and will certainly outlast you.

With the only certainty in our daily existence being change, and a rate of change growing always faster in a kind of technological leapfrog game, speed helps people think they are catching up.

By listening, by caring, by playing you back to yourself, friends ratify your better instincts and endorse your unique worth. Friends validate you.

It is a silly question to ask a prostitute why she does it ... These are the highest-paid 'professional' women in America.

Leaders are people we as followers want to regard with awe as the fullest flowering of our own possibilities.

Young women who I think do the best job of balancing family life and a big career start businesses or work for themselves. That's the best way of being in charge of your life.

The secret in the search for meaning is to find your passion and pursue it.

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 worse.

In rough times, pathfinders rely on work, friends, humor and prayer. They develop a support network.

I found that female pathfinders generally integrate characteristics commonly associated with being women - like the capacity to be intimate - with 'male' ones like ambition and courage.

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

The source of continuing aliveness was to find your passion and pursue it with whole heart and single mind.

Changes are not predictable but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary vegetation.

Changes are not only possible and predictable but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary vegetation.

Creativity could be described as letting go of certainties.