Best quotes by Gail Sheehy on Women

Checkout quotes by Gail Sheehy on Women

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

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• ‟ Sex and older women used to be considered an oxymoron, rarely mentioned in the same breath.

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• ‟ Most women have learned a great deal about how to set goals for our First Adulthood and how to roll with the punches when we hit a rough passage. But we're less prepared for our Second Adulthood as we approach life after retirement, where there are no fixed entrances or exits, and lots of sand into which it is easy to bury our heads.

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• ‟ The feminist spirit still lives! It shows most boldly among younger women from the millennial generation.

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• ‟ I was devastated when I got the review for my first book. The book came out a couple years before the women's movement broke through, and people were putting it down, asking, 'Why does the woman in this book need to get a divorce? Why can't she just shut up and be happy?'

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• ‟ I do think women can have it all - but not all women. If you take daring steps and are smart about it, you can probably have it all. But you might have to wait a while.

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• ‟ I keep returning to the central question facing over-50 women as we move into our Second Adulthood. What are our goals for this stage in our lives?

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• ‟ The dream for many millennial women is to make a difference as social or political entrepreneurs. They are using the social media and marketing tools they have mastered to empower less fortunate women and direct them onto career tracks that women have traditionally avoided, like science and technology.

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• ‟ Very few women manage to have it all; certainly not all at once.

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