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Gail Sheehy

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November 27, 1937 in Mamaroneck, New York, The United States

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http://www.gailsheehy.com/

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Gail Sheehy is an American writer and lecturer, most notable for her books on life and the life cycle. She is also a contributor to the magazine Vanity Fair.

Her fifth book, Passages, has been called "a road map of adult life". Several of her books continue the theme of passages through life's stages, including menopause and what she calls "Second Adulthood", including Pathfinders, Spirit of Survival, and Menopause: The Silent Passage. Her latest book, Sex and the Seasoned Woman, reveals a hidden cultural phenomenon: a surge of vitality in women's sex and love lives after age fifty. She has also authored a biography of Hillary Rodham Clinton titled Hillary's Choice. Her novel Middletown, America is being adapted as a TV miniseries. (from Wik...more

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Books by Gail Sheehy

Average rating: 3.58 · 945 ratings · 193 reviews · 30 distinct works

	Passages: Predictable Crises of Adult Life 3.60 avg rating — 375 ratings — 11 editions	My rating:
	The Silent Passage, Menopause 3.49 avg rating — 105 ratings — 12 editions	My rating:
	New Passages 3.46 avg rating — 76 ratings — published 1995 — 10 editions	My rating:
	Passages in Caregiving: Turning Chaos into Confidence 4.25 avg rating — 57 ratings — published 2010 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Middletown, America: One Town's Passage from Trauma To Hope by Gail Sheehy, David Lindroth, Inc. (Contribution by), Barbara M. Bachman (Designed by) 3.56 avg rating — 64 ratings — published 2003 — 11 editions	My rating:
	Hillary's Choice 3.30 avg rating — 61 ratings — published 1999 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Sex and the Seasoned Woman: Pursuing the Passionate Life 3.79 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 2006 — 11 editions	My rating:
	Pathfinders 3.58 avg rating — 36 ratings — 4 editions	My rating:
	Understanding Men's Passages: Discovering the New Map of Men's Lives 3.54 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 1998 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Spirit of Survival 4.22 avg rating — 18 ratings — 4 editions	My rating:

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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

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“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”
― Gail Sheehy

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“To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist.”
― Gail Sheehy

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