Gail Sheehy
Gail Sheehy
Gail Sheehyis an American author, journalist, and lecturer. She is the author of seventeen books, including Passages, named by the Library of Congress one of the ten most influential books of our times. Sheehy has written biographies and character studies of major twentieth-century leaders, including Hillary Clinton, both presidents Bush, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, and Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev. Her latest book, Daring: My Passages,is a memoir...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNon-Fiction Author
Date of Birth27 November 1937
CountryUnited States of America
Because men have to, and women can chose to. Women remind men and guilt them into it.
There is no more defiant denial of one man's ability to possess one woman exclusively than the prostitute who refuses to redeemed.
The fundamental steps of expansion that will open a person, over time, to the full flowering of his or her individuality are the same for both genders. But men and women are rarely in the same place struggling with the same questions at the same age.
Men are not given awards and promotions for bravery in intimacy.
The [Hillary] Clinton campaign was still operating with a White House mentality.
If menopause is the silent passage, 'male menopause' is the unspeakable passage. It is fraught with secrecy, shame, and denial. It is much more fundamental than the ending of the fertile period of a woman's life, because it strikes at the core of what it is to be a man.
If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we are not really living.
Like everyone else in the first weeks after the tragedy of 9/11, I was looking frantically for some way to help.
There is nothing in the world as great as finding your sexual excitement in your fifties.
There certainly are middle-aged children who have an oh-my-God, Mom's-gone-wild reaction if Mom starts to date. But what they should recognize is that if Mom has a boyfriend, she won't be nagging them about how they have to come to her for Christmas.
It seems like, to me, somewhere between 30 and 35 is a really, really good time to turn your eggs into babies.
I've had the experience of having a book praised but then it doesn't sell. Or not praised but then it sells.
I'm a liberal, but I think there's so much that the private sector can do and does do.
Character is what was yesterday and will be tomorrow.