Quotes by Gail Sheehy

Gail Sheehy

A restless vitality wells up as we approach 30.

Restless

Vitality

Wells

A seasoned woman is spicy. She has been marinated in life experiences. Like a complex wine, she can be alternately sweet, tart, sparkling, mellow. She is both maternal and playful. Assured, alluring, and resourceful.

Life Experience

Sweet

Wine

According to the prevailing mythology, to be younger is to be better; therefore, we should expect to find young people in the majority of those who reflect high well-being… In fact, the one finding that registered more consistently and emphatically than any other in the course of my research was this: Older is better.

Age

Majority

People

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.

Cockroaches

Towns

Wall

Being a pathfinder is to be willing to risk failure and still go on.

Goes On

Risk

Willing

By listening, by caring, by playing you back to yourself, friends ratify your better instincts and endorse your unique worth. Friends validate you.

Caring

Friendship

Unique

by operating on the principle of human and material obsolescence, America eats her history alive.

America

History

Principles

Changes are not only possible and predictable, but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one’s own unnecessary vegetation.

Change

Deny

Unnecessary

children may need challenges and high-risk conditions in order to develop the self-generated immunity to trauma that characterizes survivors. To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist.

Children

Order

Self

Growth demands a temporary surrender of security.

Growth

Meditation

Organization

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Age

Aging

America

Appreciated

Awakening

Awards

Bad Day

Bravery

Broadway

Caring

Challenges

Change

Children

Class

Cockroaches

Deny

Doe

Doubt

Facts

Family Life

Friendship

Games

Girlfriend

Giving Up

Goal

Goes On

Growing

Growing Up

Growth

History

Inspirational

Knows

Leadership

Life

Life Experience

Majority

May

Mean

Media

Meditation

Men

Military

Moving

New York

Office

Order

Organization

Oxymoron

People

Personality

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Quotes by Gail Sheehy

Gail Sheehy

A restless vitality wells up as we approach 30.

A seasoned woman is spicy. She has been marinated in life experiences. Like a complex wine, she can be alternately sweet, tart, sparkling, mellow. She is both maternal and playful. Assured, alluring, and resourceful.

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.

Being a pathfinder is to be willing to risk failure and still go on.

By listening, by caring, by playing you back to yourself, friends ratify your better instincts and endorse your unique worth. Friends validate you.

by operating on the principle of human and material obsolescence, America eats her history alive.

Changes are not only possible and predictable, but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one’s own unnecessary vegetation.

children may need challenges and high-risk conditions in order to develop the self-generated immunity to trauma that characterizes survivors. To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist.

Growth demands a temporary surrender of security.

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