1937-, American Journalist, Author
All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!
Gail Sheehy – [Change]
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.
Gail Sheehy – [Leaders and Leadership]
There is no more defiant denial of one man's ability to possess one woman exclusively than the prostitute who refuses to redeemed.
Gail Sheehy – [Prostitution]
To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist.
Gail Sheehy – [Challenges]
We hear the haunting presentiment of a dutiful middle age in the current reluctance of young people to select any option except the one they feel will impinge upon them the least.
Gail Sheehy – [Conservatives]
When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking.
Gail Sheehy – [Retirement]