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Gail Sheehy Quotes

When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: November 27, 1937

Topics

Women Cooking Men Reach Go Right

If I couldn't laugh I just would go insane, If we couldn't laugh we just would go insane, If we weren't all crazy we would go insane.

Crazy Laugh Go Just Would Insane

Is it racist to prefer country music over the blues? Or is it simply a classic case of tribal antipathy toward the unfamiliar, in favor of gravitating to what you know?

Music You Country Blues Know Over

I speak English. I grew up speaking Bengali. This is the normal, the known, the obvious composition of who I am. Then there's Italian, this strange, other component of me that I've just created. It was a creative process just to learn the language, never mind to start expressing myself in it.

Myself Creative I Am Mind Me Start

What white woman, however lonely, was ever captive or insulted by me? Yet they say I am a bad Indian.

Woman I Am Me Lonely Bad White

The real sin with Social Security is that it's a long-term rip-off and a short-term scam.

Security Sin Real Scam Long-Term

The biggest container ship can carry fifteen thousand boxes. It can hold 746 million bananas, one for every European, on one ship.

Ship Carry Hold Boxes Million Every

I listen to music before my competitions to get me pumped up. It helps me stay focused.

Music Stay Focused Me Focused Listen

The secret to it all is just to enjoy what you're doing. This is not working at the coal face, this is not sweeping behind a restaurant. It's work, but it's not work. It gives me a different type of energy. I'm grateful for that.

Work Grateful Me Energy Face Doing

I like crime thrillers. I like heist movies.

Movies Crime Like Thrillers

There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.

Funny Power Great Together Words

So as my kids will tell you, they had a pretty normal life.

Life You Will Tell Normal Pretty

I am very fired up to run in New York.

I Am New York New Run Up Fired

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