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Gail Sheehy

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If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.


— Gail Sheehy


#grow #living #really

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!


— Gail Sheehy


#before #behind #changes #die #enter

Growth demands a temporary surrender of security.


— Gail Sheehy


#growth #security #surrender #temporary

Creativity can be described as letting go of certainties.


— Gail Sheehy


#creativity #described #go #letting #letting go

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


— Gail Sheehy


#day #every #every day #grow #growing

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.


— Gail Sheehy


#comfortable #comfortable life #find #fit #life

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


— Gail Sheehy


#considered #mentioned #older #older women #oxymoron

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


— Gail Sheehy


#changes #deny #only #own #possible

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


— Gail Sheehy


#finishes #out #paradox #place #prime

Over the next few years the boardrooms of America are going to light up with hot flashes.


— Gail Sheehy


#few #flashes #going #hot #light






About Gail Sheehy






Did you know about Gail Sheehy?

Gorbachev (1991)
•The Silent Passage: Menopause (1993)
•New Passages: Mapping Your Life Across Time (1995)
•Understanding Men’s Passages: Discovering the New Map of Men's Lives (1999)
•Hillary's Choice (1999)
•Middletown America: One Town’s Passage from Trauma to Hope (2003)
•Sex and the Seasoned Woman: Pursuing the Passionate Life (2007)
•Passages in Caregiving: Turning Chaos into Confidence (2010)
Novels
•Lovesounds (1970)


Awards
•Seven time recipient of New York Newswomen’s Club Front Page Award for DistinguiGail Sheehyd Journalism
•Washington Journalism Review Award for Best Magazine Writer in America
•New York Public Library Literary Lions Award
•1973 The National Magazine Award for Report Excellence
•1987 Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards for The Spirit of Survival
•1994 Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Dartmouth
•1997 Hospital for Special Surgery Award For Groundbreaking Work In Women’s Health
•2002 American Psychological Associations Presidential Citation
•2011 American Society on Aging Leadership Award. Bush and a woman named "Jennifer". New York magazine
As a journalist Sheehy was one of the original contributors to New York founded by Clay Felker who encouraged his writers to break the conventions of newspaper writing.

Sheehy written biographies and character studies of major twentieth-century leaders including Hillary Clinton both Presidents Bush Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev. Gail Sheehy (born November 27 1937) is an American author journalist and lecturer.

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