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I do think taking the 20s to take the most chances you can is important, because you're not going to hurt anyone else during that time. And if you do have a partner, you need a couple years to rehearse that relationship.
— Gail Sheehy
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Gail Sheehy
journalist, novelist, biographer, writer, opinion journalist
🔗 Read on Wikipedia1936  – 2020
Gail Sheehy was an American author, journalist, and lecturer. She was the author of seventeen books and numerous high-profile articles for magazines such as New York and Vanity Fair. Sheehy played a part in the movement Tom Wolfe called the New Journalism, sometimes known as creative nonfiction, in which journalists and essayists experimented with adopting a variety of literary techniques such as scene setting, dialogue, status details to denote social class, and getting inside the story and sometimes reporting the thoughts of a central character.
All Quotes by Gail Sheehy
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Being a pathfinder is to be willing to risk failure and still go on.
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We really only have two choices. Play it safe, or take a chance. For me, pulling back because of fear has always made me feel worse.
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We really only have two choices. Play it safe, or take a chance. For me, pulling back because of fear has always made me feel worse.
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To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist.
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The delights of self-discovery are always available.
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If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
— Gail Sheehy