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The perceptions of middle age have their own luminosity.

~Gail Sheehy

Topics: Age Middle Middle Age Own Perceptions

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To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist.

~Gail Sheehy

Topics: Best Challenged Good Life May Tested Therapist

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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.

~Gail Sheehy

Topics: Ability Denial Man More Possess Redeemed Refuses Than Who Woman

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

~Gail Sheehy

Topics: Breath Considered Mentioned Older Older Women Oxymoron Rarely Same Sex Used Women

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

~Gail Sheehy

Topics: America Few Flashes Going Hot Light Next Over Up Years

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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.

~Gail Sheehy

Topics: Comfortable Comfortable Life Find Fit Life Ourselves Piece Place Sooner Than Think

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I do think taking the 20s to take the most chances you can is important, because you're not going to hurt anyone else during that time. And if you do have a partner, you need a couple years to rehearse that relationship.

~Gail Sheehy

Topics: Anyone Anyone Else Because Chances Couple Couple Years Else Going Hurt Important Most Need Partner Rehearse Relationship Take Taking Think Time Years You

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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 child before she was 35.

~Gail Sheehy

Topics: America Before Between Career Child Community Easily Exercise Found Had Happiest Happily Her Important Last Lives Made Married Most Outside Progress She Significant Single Single Thing The Most Important Thing Where Woman

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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

Topics: Apart Disciple Drops Eventually Fun Hang Meant Mentor No Fun Pull Relationships Sometime Those Who

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In my memoir, I admit that I've been as fearful of success as of failure. In fact, when 'Passages' was published, I so dreaded bad reviews that I ran away to Italy with a girlfriend and our children to hide out.

~Gail Sheehy

Topics: Admit Away Bad Been Children Dreaded Fact Failure Fearful Girlfriend Hide In Fact Italy Memoir Our Out Passages Published Ran Reviews Success

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: November 27th, 1937

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