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Gail Sheehy

"The perceptions of middle age have their own luminosity."

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"The perceptions of middle age have their own luminosity."

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"American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age."

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"As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of 'do it yourself.'"

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"Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?"

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"It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again."

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"If youth knew; if age could."

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"The Peking man was a thinking being, standing erect, dating to the beginning of the Ice Age."

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"If life really begins at forty, then all poor people die in their teens."

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"There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity."

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"I saw no African people in the printed and illustrated Sunday school lessons. I began to suspect at this early age that someone had distorted the image of my people. My long search for the true history of African people the world over began."

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"Long lives aren't natural. We forget that senior citizens are as much an invention as toasters or penicillin."

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"Growth demands a temporary surrender of security."
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"Sex and older women used to be considered an oxymoron, rarely mentioned in the same breath."
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"All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!"
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"If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living."
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"Ah, mastery... what a profoundly satisfying feeling when one finally gets on top of a new set of skills... and then sees the light under the new door those skills can open, even as another door is closing."
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"Creativity can be described as letting go of certainties."
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"If every day is an awakening, you will never grow old. You will just keep growing."
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"The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests."
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"To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist."
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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."
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