I was devastated when I got the review for my first book. The book came out a couple years before the women's movement broke through, and people were putting it down, asking, 'Why does the woman in this book need to get a divorce? Why can't she just shut up and be happy?'
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.