Gail Sheehy Quotes:
Adapting to our Second Adulthood is not all about the money. It requires thinking about how to find a new locus of identity or how to adjust to a spouse who stops working and who may loll, enjoying coffee and reading the paper online while you’re still commuting.
Gail Sheehy
Sex and older women used to be considered an oxymoron, rarely mentioned in the same breath.
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
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
Family caregiving has become a predictable crisis. Americans are living longer and longer but dying slower and slower.
Gail Sheehy
I actually like getting out of my comfort zone. It shakes me up.
Gail Sheehy
Growth demands a temporary surrender of security. – Growth demands a temporary surrender of security.
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
To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist. – To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist.
Gail Sheehy
If every day is an awakening, you will never grow old. You will just keep growing.
Gail Sheehy
The delights of self-discovery are always available. – The delights of self-discovery are always available.
Gail Sheehy
When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking. – When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking.
Gail Sheehy
The dream for many millennial women is to make a difference as social or political entrepreneurs. They are using the social media and marketing tools they have mastered to empower less fortunate women and direct them onto career tracks that women have traditionally avoided, like science and technology.
Gail Sheehy
It is a paradox that as we reach out prime, we also see there is a place where it finishes.
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
The first thing one notices about Jill Abramson is her short stature. The second is her intensity.
Gail Sheehy
Creativity can be described as letting go of certainties. – Creativity can be described as letting go of certainties.
Gail Sheehy
No sooner do we think we have assembled a comfortable life than we find a piece of ourselves that has no place to fit in.
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
It was so naive to think that there was nothing interesting that happened after 55. Come on, there’s a whole second adulthood!
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
Be willing to shed parts of your previous life. For example, in our 20s, we wear a mask; we pretend we know more than we do. We must be willing, as we get older, to shed cocktail party phoniness and admit, ‘I am who I am.’
Gail Sheehy
My husband, Clay Felker, died 17 years after his first cancer due to secondary conditions that developed from treatment.
Gail Sheehy