Gail Sheehy
Born: 27 November 1937, Mamaroneck, New York
Born Gail Meritt, she graduated from the University of Vermont in 1958, in 1960 she moved to New York City and married Albert Sheehy. (She divorced Sheehy in 1968, married Clay Felker in 1984.) She was fashion editor for Democrat and Chronicle, feature writer for the New York Herald Tribune, about three years each, and contributing editor to New York Magazine from 1968 to 1977. She received a fellowship to study with Margaret Mead at Columbia in 1970. In 1976 her fifth book, Passages, on the phases of adult life was a major success, remaining on the New York Times best-seller list for three years and named one of the most influential books of modern times by the Library of Congress. On the other hand, she was promptly sued for plagiarism by Roger Gould, a psychiatrist at UCLA, who received 10% of the royalties based as a result. In 1992 she wrote an article in Vanity Fair based on an interview with Hillary Clinton, quoting the first lady from parts of the interview that were off the record (according to both Clinton and VF's fact checker) and her 1999 biography of Clinton was also attacked for misquoting sources. An article critical of the 9/11 Commission that appeared in The New York Observer in 2004 was blasted for factual errors. For all of that, the public loves her work. She won the Penny-Missouri Journalism Award in 1986, has won the New York Newswomen's Club Front Page Award seven times, and is current contributor to Vanity Fair, a free lance writer, and a popular lecturer.
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- Ah, mastery ... what a profoundly satisfying feeling when one finally gets on top of a new set of skills ... and then sees the light under the new door those skills can open, even as another door is closing. permalink
Gail Sheehy - 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! permalink
Gail Sheehy - Changes are not only possible and predictable, but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary vegetation. permalink
Gail Sheehy - Creativity can be described as letting go of certainties. permalink
Gail Sheehy - Every day is an awakening, you will never grow old. You will just keep growing. permalink
Gail Sheehy - Going to Hollywood to talk about menopause was a little like going to Las Vegas to sell savings accounts. permalink
Gail Sheehy - Growth demands a temporary surrender of security. It may mean a giving up of familiar but limiting patterns, safe but unrewarding work, values no longer believed in, relationships that have lost their meaning. As Dostoevsky put it, "Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most." The real fear should be of the opposite course. permalink
Gail Sheehy - If every day is an awakening, you will never grow old. You will just keep growing. permalink
Gail Sheehy - 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. permalink
Gail Sheehy - If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living. Growth demands a temporary surrender of security. It may mean a giving up of familiar but limiting patterns, safe but unrewarding work, values no longer believed in, relationships that have lost their meaning. permalink
Gail Sheehy - It is a paradox that as we reach our prime, we also see there is a place where it finishes. permalink
Gail Sheehy - It is a silly question to ask a prostitute why she does it. These are the highest-paid "professional" women in America. permalink
Gail Sheehy - No sooner do we think we have assembled a comfortable life than we find a piece of ourselves that has no place to fit in. permalink
Gail Sheehy - Over the next few years the boardrooms of America are going to light up with hot flashes. permalink
Gail Sheehy - Sex and older women used to be considered an oxymoron, rarely mentioned in the same breath. permalink
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