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When you have self-respect, you have enough.

Gail Sheehy

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Gail Sheehy
Age: 83 †
Born: 1936
Born: November 27
Died: 2020
Died: August 24
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Mamaroneck
New York
Gail Henion Sheehy
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Self
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In my memoir, I admit that I've been as fearful of success as of failure. In fact, when 'Passages' was published, I so dreaded bad reviews that I ran away to Italy with a girlfriend and our children to hide out.
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As we reach midlife in the middle thirties or early forties, 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.
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Frustration is the mother of risk.
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If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we are not really living.
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A restless vitality wells up as we approach 30.
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It is a paradox that as we reach out prime, we also see there is a place where it finishes.
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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.
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My mother had demonstrated that the best way to defeat the numbing ambivalence of middle age is to surprise yourself - by pulling off some cartwheel of thought or action never even imagined at a younger age.
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Growth demands a temporary surrender of security.
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The perceptions of middle age have their own luminosity.
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We must be willing to change chairs if we want to grow. There is no permanent compatibility between a chair and a person. And there is no one right chair. What is right at one stage may be restricting at another or too soft. During the passage from one stage to another, we will be between two chairs. Wobbling no doubt, but developing.
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The [Hillary] Clinton campaign was still operating with a White House mentality.
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Leaders are people we as followers want to regard with awe as the fullest flowering of our own possibilities.
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Although there are many trial marriages... there is no such thing as a trial child.
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If every day is an awakening, you will never grow old. You will just keep growing.
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The secret in the search for meaning is to find your passion and pursue it.
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