Gail Sheehy

Changes are not only possible and predictable, but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary vegetation.

Creativity can be described as letting go of certainties.

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

If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we are not really living. Growth demands a temporary surrender of security.

With each passage of human growth we must shed a protective structure like a hardy crustacean. We are left exposed and vulnerable - but also yeasty and embryonic again, capable of stretching in ways we hadn't known before.

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.
- All from Gail Sheehy

About: Gail Sheehy was born at Mamaroneck, New York on 27 Nov in 1937. Although she has written a number of well-regarded biographies, she is best known for covering change and growth in adult Americans, starting with Passages, which has been hailed as one of the ten most influential books of the last century.