Quotes by Gail Sheehy

About Gail Sheehy:

Gail Sheehy is an American author, journalist, and lecturer. She is the author of seventeen books, including Passages (1976), named by the Library of Congress one of the ten most influential books of our times. Sheehy has 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. Her latest book, Daring: My Passages, (Sept. 2014) is a memoir.
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Spontaneity, the hallmark of childhood, is well worth cultivating to counteract the rigidity that may otherwise set in as we grow older.

Gail Sheehy

I dare to do things - that's how I survive.

Gail Sheehy

I actually like getting out of my comfort zone. It shakes me up.

Gail Sheehy

You don't have to feel confident to act confident. In fact, it's the most important acting job you can learn.

Gail Sheehy

My husband, Clay Felker, died 17 years after his first cancer due to secondary conditions that developed from treatment.

Gail Sheehy

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

Gail Sheehy

Stress overload makes us stupid. Solid research proves it. When we get overstressed, it creates a nasty chemical soup in our brains that makes it hard to pull out of the anxious depressive spiral.

Gail Sheehy

We have to move from the unbridled pursuit of self-gain at the expense of others to recovering appreciation for what we gain by caring and sharing with one another.

Gail Sheehy

Character is what was yesterday and will be tomorrow.

Gail Sheehy

It was so naive to think that there was nothing interesting that happened after 55. Come on, there's a whole second adulthood!

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I actually interviewed other people about myself, and that alerted me to the fact that I had to really investigate my memories.

Gail Sheehy

I'm a liberal, but I think there's so much that the private sector can do and does do.

Gail Sheehy

Eventually, all mentor-disciple relationships are meant to pull apart, usually sometime in the mid-30s. Those who hang on, eventually the mentor drops the disciple, and that's no fun.

Gail Sheehy

Like everyone else in the first weeks after the tragedy of 9/11, I was looking frantically for some way to help.

Gail Sheehy

We see it in the body, that if you just give the body enough rest and comfort, it has remarkable self-healing capacities. Well, so does the spirit.

Gail Sheehy

No one can control the aging process or the trajectory of illness.

Gail Sheehy

The first thing one notices about Jill Abramson is her short stature. The second is her intensity.

Gail Sheehy

I found the happiest woman in America is between 50 and 55, is happily married, has made significant progress in her career, and lives in a community where she can easily exercise outside. But the most important single thing was she had her last chil...

Gail Sheehy

I know I'm never going to probably see the Taj Mahal or, you know, climb Mt. Everest, but I can still maybe influence peoples' way of thinking by a story that I do, by something I learn about the world.

Gail Sheehy

In 2009, I served as AARP's Ambassador of Caregiving. With a producer and cameraman, I traveled the country for months, interviewing hundreds of caregivers.

Gail Sheehy

Creativity could be described as letting go of certainties.

Gail Sheehy

Author Bio

  • NameGail Sheehy
  • DescriptionWriter, biographer
  • BornNovember 15, 1937
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionJournalist; Novelist