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.
More Quotes by Gail Sheehy
The delights of self-discovery are always available.
When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking.
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?
If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
If every day is an awakening, you will never grow old. You will just keep growing.
Being a pathfinder is to be willing to risk failure and still go on.