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I've had the experience of having a book praised but then it doesn't sell. Or not praised but then it sells.

~Gail Sheehy

Topics: Book Experience Had Having Praised Sell Sells Then

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If you're the person living closest to the parent who's going to need help, and you take on the whole role of primary caregiver, you can be pretty sure your sibling who lives farthest away is going to call you and say, 'You don't know what you're doing.' Because they're not on the spot, and they probably feel guilty.

~Gail Sheehy

Topics: Away Because Call Closest Doing Farthest Feel Going Guilty Help Know Lives Living Need Parent Person Pretty Primary Role Say Sibling Spot Sure Take Who Whole You Your

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This is something caregivers have to understand: You have to ask for help. You have to realize that you deserve to ask for help. Because you need to keep on working on your own life.

~Gail Sheehy

Topics: Ask Because Deserve Help Keep Life Need Own Realize Something Understand Working You Your

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

~Gail Sheehy

Topics: Aging Control Illness Process Trajectory

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

~Gail Sheehy

Topics: About First First Thing Her Intensity Notices Second Short Stature The First Thing Thing

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I keep returning to the central question facing over-50 women as we move into our Second Adulthood. What are our goals for this stage in our lives?

~Gail Sheehy

Topics: Adulthood Central Facing Goals Keep Lives Move Our Our Lives Question Returning Second Stage Women

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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

Topics: About Adapting Adjust Adulthood Coffee Commuting Enjoying Find How Identity May Money New Online Our Paper Reading Requires Second Spouse Still Stops Thinking While Who Working You

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The feminist spirit still lives! It shows most boldly among younger women from the millennial generation.

~Gail Sheehy

Topics: Among Boldly Feminist Generation Lives Most Shows Spirit Still Women Younger

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Very few women manage to have it all; certainly not all at once.

~Gail Sheehy

Topics: Certainly Few Manage Once Very Women

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Career-driven millennials are strategic about working obsessively while they are single and earning enough money to afford advanced education. Most are patient enough to wait until 30 or later to develop their dream.

~Gail Sheehy

Topics: About Advanced Afford Develop Dream Earning Education Enough Enough Money Later Millennials Money Most Patient Single Strategic Until Wait While Working

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: November 27th, 1937

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