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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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Mamaroneck
New York
Gail Henion Sheehy
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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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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.
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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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It is a paradox that as we reach out prime, we also see there is a place where it finishes.
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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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To hear how special and wonderful we are is endlessly enthralling.
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Although there are many trial marriages... there is no such thing as a trial child.
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Growth demands a temporary surrender of security.
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In the many times I have seen Hillary [Clinton] speak, she never fails to dazzle audiences by speaking in paragraphs, without notes.
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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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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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Frustration is the mother of risk.
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