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
The source of continuing aliveness was to find your passion and pursue it, with whole heart and single mind.
The [Hillary] Clinton campaign was still operating with a White House mentality.
Whether one has natural talent or not, any learning period requires the willingness to suffer uncertainty and embarrassment.
With each passage of human growth we must shed a protective structure . We are left exposed and vulnerable - but also yeasty and embryonic again, capable of stretching in ways we hadn't known before.
If every day is an awakening, you will never grow old. You will just keep growing.
In the many times I have seen Hillary [Clinton] speak, she never fails to dazzle audiences by speaking in paragraphs, without notes.
Ah, mastery... what a profoundly satisfying feeling when one finally gets on top of a new set of skills... and then sees the light under the new door those skills can open, even as another door is closing.
My research offers impressive evidence that we feel better when we attempt to make our world better...to have a purpose beyond one's self lends to existence a meaning and direction - the most important characteristic of high well-being.
Changes are not only possible and predictable, but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary vegetation.
It is a paradox that as we reach out prime, we also see there is a place where it finishes.
The perceptions of middle age have their own luminosity.
If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
The delights of self-discovery are always available.
By listening, by caring, by playing you back to yourself, friends ratify your better instincts and endorse your unique worth. Friends validate you.