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Challenges
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To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist.
-Gail Sheehy
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Change
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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
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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
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Conservatism
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We hear the haunting presentiment of a dutiful middle age in the current reluctance of young people to select any option except the one they feel will impinge upon them the least.
-Gail Sheehy
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Leadership
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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.
-Gail Sheehy
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Prostitution
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There is no more defiant denial of one man's ability to possess one woman exclusively than the prostitute who refuses to redeemed.
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Retirement
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When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking.
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Success & Failure
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Would that there were an award for people who come to understand the concept of enough. Good enough. Successful enough. Thin enough. Rich enough. Socially responsible enough. When you have self-respect you have enough . . .
-Gail Sheehy
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Books by and about Gail Sheehy