In my memoir, I admit that I've been as fearful of success as of failure. In fact, when … - Gail Sheehy

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Sometimes I just play the theme from Arthur. It reminds me of my childhood in New York and I just love it.

Gail Sheehy

In my memoir, I admit that I've been as fearful of success as of failure. In fact, when 'Passages' was published, I so dreaded bad reviews that I ran away to Italy with a girlfriend and our children to hide out.

Away, Children, Facts, Girlfriend, Memoir, Ran

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A seasoned woman is spicy. She has been marinated in life experiences. Like a complex wine, she can be alternately sweet, tart, sparkling, mellow. She is both maternal and playful. Assured, alluring, and resourceful. She is less likely to have an agenda than a young woman-no biological clock tick-tocking beside her lover's bed, no campaign to lead him to the altar, no rescue fantasies. The seasoned woman knows who she is. She could be any one of us, as long a she is committed to living fully and passionately in the second half of her life, despite failures and false starts.

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With the only certainty in our daily existence being change, and a rate of change growing always faster in a kind of technological leapfrog game, speed helps people think they are catching up.

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Being a pathfinder is to be willing to risk failure and still go on.

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Men are not given awards and promotions for bravery in intimacy.

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A restless vitality wells up as we approach 30.

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Sometimes I just play the theme from Arthur. It reminds me of my childhood in New York and I just love it.

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Prayer did not come easily to me for I always feel that prayer is a silent things, and opening of the heart. To ask for earthly benefits, to reel out a list of requirements and expect them to be supplied is not prayer. It is putting God in the same category as an intelligent grocer.

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My friends were poor, but honest, so's my love.

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Oh God. She probably thinks we were off doing—you know—romantic type, um, things—

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