Gail Sheehy Short Quotes

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Creativity can be described as letting go of certainties.

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Men are not given awards and promotions for bravery in intimacy.

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To hear how special and wonderful we are is endlessly enthralling.

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The secret in the search for meaning is to find your passion and pursue it.

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If every day is an awakening, you will never grow old. You will just keep growing.

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You may never know when things start to go bad, but when things are worse you know it.

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Sex and older women used to be considered an oxymoron, rarely mentioned in the same breath.

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

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The source of continuing aliveness was to find your passion and pursue it, with whole heart and single mind.

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Leaders are people we as followers want to regard with awe as the fullest flowering of our own possibilities.

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It is a silly question to ask a prostitute why she does it... These are the highest-paid 'professional' women in America.

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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.

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

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If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we are not really living. Growth demands a temporary surrender of security.

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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 be redeemed.

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The present never ages. Each moment is like a snowflake, unique, unspoiled, unrepeatable, and can be appreciated in its surprisingness.

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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.

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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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With the only certainty in our daily existence being change, and a rate of change growing always faster in a kind of technological leapfrog game, speed helps people to think they are keeping up.

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