33 ordspråk av Gail Sheehy
Gail Sheehy
 Sex and older women used to be considered an oxymoron, rarely mentioned in the same breath. |
| The delights of self-discovery are always available. |
| The Internet has been a boon to this age group. |
| 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 certainly are middle-aged children who have an oh-my-God, Mom's-gone-wild reaction if Mom starts to date. But what they should recognize is that if Mom has a boyfriend, she won't be nagging them about how they have to come to her for Christmas. |
| There is no more defiant denial of one man's ability to possess one woman exclusively than the prostitute who refuses to redeemed. |
| There is nothing in the world as great as finding your sexual excitement in your fifties. |
| To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist. |
| We hear the haunting presentiment of a dutiful middle age in the current reluctance of young people to select any option except the one they feel will impinge upon them the least. |
| When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
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