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Democratization is not democracy it is a slogan for the temporary liberalization handed down from an autocrat. Glasnost is not free speech only free speech, constitutionally guaranteed, is free speech.

Gail Sheehy

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Gail Sheehy
Age: 83 †
Born: 1936
Born: November 27
Died: 2020
Died: August 24
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Gail Henion Sheehy
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To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist.
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If menopause is the silent passage, 'male menopause' is the unspeakable passage. It is fraught with secrecy, shame, and denial. It is much more fundamental than the ending of the fertile period of a woman's life, because it strikes at the core of what it is to be a man.
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by operating on the principle of human and material obsolescence, America eats her history alive.
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The [Hillary] Clinton campaign was still operating with a White House mentality.
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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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The one thing prostitution is not is a 'victimless crime.' It attracts a wide species of preying criminals and generates a long line of victims, beginning with the most obvious and least understood - the prostitute herself.
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Speed as a drug disorganizes the personality speed as the goal of information dissemination commits a subtler crime. People are mainlining our words. We rarely read of the rational alternatives, only of the commands that all must change or else. This is a prescription for public panic.
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If every day is an awakening, you will never grow old. You will just keep growing.
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Although there are many trial marriages... there is no such thing as a trial child.
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