You may never know when things start to go bad, but when things are worse you know it.

- Gail Sheehy

The work of adult life is not easy. As in childhood, each step presents not only new tasks of development but requires a letting go of the techniques…

- Gail Sheehy

If menopause is the silent passage, 'male menopause' is the unspeakable passage. It is fraught with secrecy, shame, and denial. It is much more funda…

- Gail Sheehy

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…

- 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.

- Gail Sheehy

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

- 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 lon…

- Gail Sheehy

If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.

- Gail Sheehy

A seasoned woman is spicy. She has been marinated in life experiences. Like a complex wine, she can be alternately sweet, tart, sparkling, mellow. Sh…

- Gail Sheehy