Gail Sheehy Quotes - Page 3

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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.

  Gail Sheehy

  Thinking, Games, People

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• The perceptions of middle age have their own luminosity.

  Gail Sheehy

  Birthday, Perception, Age

  Gail Sheehy (1977). “Passages: Predictable Crises of Adult Life”, Bantam

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• This is a woman [Hillary Clinton] who for many of her 52 years never cared a fig about her appearance, but in the chrysalis of transformation from political wife to independent woman, the jawline has been chiseled, the dominatrix eyebrows weeded, the weight dropped, and the result is a woman who obviously enjoys for the first time being called beautiful.

  Gail Sheehy

  Beautiful, Independent, Years

  Source: www.vanityfair.com

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• children may need challenges and high-risk conditions in order to develop the self-generated immunity to trauma that characterizes survivors. To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist.

  Gail Sheehy

  Children, Order, Self

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• by operating on the principle of human and material obsolescence, America eats her history alive.

  Gail Sheehy

  America, History, Principles

  Gail Sheehy (1971). “Speed is of the Essence”, Richmond Hill, Ont. : Simon & Schuster of Canada

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• It is a silly question to ask a prostitute why she does it ... These are the highest-paid 'professional' women in America.

  Gail Sheehy

  Silly, America, Doe

  Gail Sheehy (1973). “Hustling: Prostitution in Our Wide Open Society”, New York : Delacorte Press

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• The one thing prostitution is not is a 'victimless crime.' It attracts a wide species of preying criminals and generates a long line of victims, beginning with the most obvious and least understood - the prostitute herself.

  Gail Sheehy

  Long, Criminals, Lines

  Gail Sheehy (1973). “Hustling: Prostitution in Our Wide Open Society”, New York : Delacorte Press

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• Adolescents are like cockroaches: They come out the minute you leave town, crawl the walls, feed indiscriminately, reproduce alarmingly unless drugged, and will certainly outlast you.

  Gail Sheehy

  Wall, Cockroaches, Towns

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• It is Hillary's [Clinton] star power that radiates to every corner of the ballroom. New York bigwigs, such as financial-media impresario Michael Bloomberg, attorney and labor mediator Theodore Kheel, and District Attorney Robert Morgenthau, crane to see her.

  Gail Sheehy

  Stars, New York, Media

  Source: www.vanityfair.com

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• The [Hillary] Clinton campaign was still operating with a White House mentality.

  Gail Sheehy

  White, House, Campaigns

  Source: www.vanityfair.com

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• In the many times I have seen Hillary [Clinton] speak, she never fails to dazzle audiences by speaking in paragraphs, without notes.

  Gail Sheehy

  Dazzle, Speak, Failing

  Source: www.vanityfair.com

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