155 Quotes by Gail Sheehy

Husbands come and go; children come and eventually they go. Friends grow up and move away. But the one thing that’s never lost is your sister.

No matter how different the forms we choose, our concentration during the Trying Twenties is on mastering what we feel we are supposed to do.

Changes are not only possible and predictable, but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one’s own unnecessary vegetation.

No two people can possibly coordinate all their developmental crises.

Many people find it easier to live together when that commitment is voluntarily renewed. The.

If menopause is the silent passage, ‘male menopause’ is the unspeakable passage. It is fraught with secrecy, shame, and denial. It is much more fundamental than the ending of the fertile period of a woman’s life, because it strikes at the core of what it is to be a man.

The one thing prostitution is not is a ‘victimless crime.’ It attracts a wide species of preying criminals and generates a long line of victims, beginning with the most obvious and least understood – the prostitute herself.

As we reach midlife in the middle thirties or early forties, we are not prepared for the idea that time can run out on us, or for the startling truth that if we don’t hurry to pursue our own definition of a meaningful existence, life can become a repetition of trivial maintenance duties.

There is no more defiant denial of one man’s ability to possess one woman exclusively than the prostitute who refuses to redeemed.