Gail Sheehy Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“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.”

“If you're the person living closest to the parent who's going to need help, and you take on the whole role of primary caregiver, you can be pretty sure your sibling who lives farthest away is going to call you and say, 'You don't know what you're doing.' Because they're not on the spot, and they probably feel guilty.”

“People in grief need someone to walk with them without judging them.”

“It is a paradox that as we reach out prime, we also see there is a place where it finishes.”

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

“The perceptions of middle age have their own luminosity.”

“The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.”

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

“Family caregiving has become a predictable crisis. Americans are living longer and longer but dying slower and slower.”

“I actually like getting out of my comfort zone. It shakes me up.”