Gail Sheehy

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

Married at 23, a mother at 24, and blindsided by divorce at 28, I found myself struggling, like many young women I meet today, to strike a balance between my personal life and my career. ”

Very few women manage to have it all; certainly not all at once. ”

I was devastated when I got the review for my first book. The book came out a couple years before the women's movement broke through, and people were putting it down, asking, 'Why does the woman in this book need to get a divorce? Why can't she just shut up and be happy?' ”

When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking. ”

I actually interviewed other people about myself, and that alerted me to the fact that I had to really investigate my memories. ”

No one can control the aging process or the trajectory of illness. ”

Career-driven millennials are strategic about working obsessively while they are single and earning enough money to afford advanced education. Most are patient enough to wait until 30 or later to develop their dream. ”

You don't have to feel confident to act confident. In fact, it's the most important acting job you can learn. ”

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