Gail Sheehy quotes

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.

The delights of self-discovery are always available.

If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.

We really only have two choices. Play it safe, or take a chance. For me, pulling back because of fear has always made me feel worse.

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

We really only have two choices. Play it safe, or take a chance. For me, pulling back because of fear has always made me feel worse.

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.

In my memoir, I admit that I've been as fearful of success as of failure. In fact, when 'Passages' was published, I so dreaded bad reviews that I ran away to Italy with a girlfriend and our children to hide out.