Famous Gail Sheehy Quotations

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"When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking."
by Gail Sheehy
"If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living."
by Gail Sheehy
"As we reach midlife . we are not prepared for the idea that time can run out on us, or for the startling truth that if we don't hurry to pursue our own definition of a meaningful existence, life can become a repetition of trivial maintenance duties."
by Gail Sheehy
"Changes are not only possible and predictable, but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary vegetation."
by Gail Sheehy
"Growth demands a temporary surrender of security."
by Gail Sheehy
"If every day is an awakening, you will never grow old. You will just keep growing."
by Gail Sheehy
"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 life before we can enter into another!"
by Gail Sheehy
"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."
by Gail Sheehy


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