Gail Sheehy Quotes

Adapting to our Second Adulthood is not all about the money. It requires thinking about how to find a new locus of identity or how to adjust to a spouse who stops working and who may loll, enjoying coffee and reading the paper online while you're still commuting.

Gail Sheehy

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

CoffeeMoneyIdentityReadingYou

Who in the same given time can produce more than others has vigor; who can produce more and better, has talents; who can produce what none else can, has genius.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

TimeBetterGeniusOthersMoreSame

'Othello' is the most domestic of Shakespeare's tragedies and the one that's likely to strike a personal note with a lot of people watching it.

Andrew Davies

PeopleStrikePersonalWatchingNote

Jake from 'Two and a Half Men' means nothing. He is a non-existent character.

Angus T. Jones

CharacterMenNothingTwoHalfHe

It's great finding a comic book character that doesn't care about following traditional comic book rules by breaking the fourth wall and being explicit about everything. This gives Deadpool the arrogance which you just have to love.

Stefan Kapicic

LoveCharacterGreatBookCareYou

Even nowadays a man can't step up and kill a woman without feeling just a bit unchivalrous.

Robert Benchley

WomanManStepFeelingWithoutUp

My James Bond wasn't any different to my Saint or my Persuaders or anything else I've done. I've just made everything that I play look like me and sound like me.

Roger Moore

MeBondLookPlayDoneSound

I believe that in the pursuit of education, individual desire is more influential than institution, and personal faith more forceful than faculty.

Russell M. Nelson

EducationFaithBelievePersonal

I think all the history of the Jewish people is about adaptation.

Michel Hazanavicius

HistoryPeopleThinkJewishI Think

Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell about thee: Yet who would live, and live without thee!

Joseph Addison

LoveLivePainTreasureMysterious

I have in the past overly trusted people and was, in turn, let down by some. Since then, I have learned the difference between putting faith into people and blindly trusting them.

Do Won Chang

FaithPastPeopleDownTurnBlindly

The truth is really funny. It's uncomfortable sometimes, it's dramatic sometimes, but it's really funny. Life is funny.

Chris Messina

LifeFunnyTruthTruth IsSometimes

'Shell Shocked' is so different from what people are used to hearing from Ty Dolla Sign.

Ty Dolla Sign

PeopleHearingUsedDifferentShell

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