American - Writer | November 27, 1937 -
Changes are not only possible and predictable, but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary vegetation.
Gail Sheehy
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The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.
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The perceptions of middle age have their own luminosity.
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To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist.
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There is no more defiant denial of one man's ability to possess one woman exclusively than the prostitute who refuses to redeemed.
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If every day is an awakening, you will never grow old. You will just keep growing.
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It is a paradox that as we reach out prime, we also see there is a place where it finishes.
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Over the next few years the boardrooms of America are going to light up with hot flashes.
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No sooner do we think we have assembled a comfortable life than we find a piece of ourselves that has no place to fit in.
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I do think taking the 20s to take the most chances you can is important, because you're not going to hurt anyone else during that time. And if you do have a partner, you need a couple years to rehearse that relationship.
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I found the happiest woman in America is between 50 and 55, is happily married, has made significant progress in her career, and lives in a community where she can easily exercise outside. But the most important single thing was she had her last child before she was 35.
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Eventually, all mentor-disciple relationships are meant to pull apart, usually sometime in the mid-30s. Those who hang on, eventually the mentor drops the disciple, and that's no fun.
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