Daring Quotes

“THE GREAT HEROISM OF A SOBER LIFE is getting up in the morning and facing the day, greeting others, going out into the world with something to give. When we are in the grave of our own thoughts, feeling like we will never be able to crawl back out, our fingernails packed with dirt, how is it that sometime later we can be laughing, and laughing hard?”
― Gail Sheehy, Daring: My Passages: A Memoir

“WHATEVER YOU CAN DO, OR DREAM YOU CAN, BEGIN IT. BOLDNESS HAS GENIUS, POWER AND MAGIC IN IT. —GOETHE”
― Gail Sheehy, Daring: My Passages: A Memoir

“man who dropped into New York State on a carpetbag”
― Gail Sheehy, Daring: My Passages: A Memoir

“Here was a dyed-in-the-brine Cape Cod, Massachusetts, man who dropped into New York State on a carpetbag and used his slain brother’s gilded connections to help win a Senate seat.”
― Gail Sheehy, Daring: My Passages: A Memoir

“early marriage usually foreclosed the possibility of a career dream.”
― Gail Sheehy, Daring: My Passages: A Memoir

“I was”
― Gail Sheehy, Daring: My Passages: A Memoir