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Your Quotes for 27 November 2005 - Gail Sheehy

Gail Sheehy was born at Mamaroneck, New York on this day in 1937. My normal searches were completely unable to dig up any biographical information, overwhelmed by the flood of information about her books. Although she has written a number of well-regarded biographies, she is best known for covering change and growth in adult Americans, starting with Passages, which has been hailed as one of the ten most influential books of the last century. Believe it or not, I've never read any of her books, but I have these quotes ...

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

Creativity can be described as letting go of certainties.

If every day is an awakening, you will never grow old. You will just keep growing.

If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we are not really living. Growth demands a temporary surrender of security.

With each passage of human growth we must shed a protective structure like a hardy crustacean. We are left exposed and vulnerable - but also yeasty and embryonic again, capable of stretching in ways we hadn't known before.

Would that there were an award for people who come to understand the concept of enough. Good enough. Successful enough. Thin enough. Rich enough. Socially responsible enough. When you have self-respect, you have enough.
     - All from Gail Sheehy

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