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Gail Sheehy


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

Died
August 24, 2020

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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
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Average rating: 3.9 · 8,409 ratings · 1,120 reviews · 68 distinct worksSimilar authors
Passages: Predictable Crise...

3.87 avg rating — 2,239 ratings — published 1976 — 68 editions
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Daring: My Passages

3.91 avg rating — 574 ratings — published 2014 — 10 editions
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The Silent Passage: Menopause

3.57 avg rating — 418 ratings — published 1992 — 46 editions
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New Passages: Mapping Your ...

3.71 avg rating — 355 ratings26 editions
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Passages in Caregiving: Tur...

4.13 avg rating — 284 ratings — published 2010 — 10 editions
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Middletown, America: One To...

3.86 avg rating — 195 ratings25 editions
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Hillary's Choice

3.48 avg rating — 216 ratings — published 1991 — 7 editions
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Sex and the Seasoned Woman:...

3.74 avg rating — 159 ratings — published 2006 — 31 editions
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Understanding Men's Passage...

3.61 avg rating — 135 ratings — published 1998 — 19 editions
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Pathfinders: Overcoming the...

3.69 avg rating — 105 ratings — published 1981 — 19 editions
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“Creativity could be described as letting go of certainties.”
Gail Sheehy

“If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.”
Gail Sheehy

“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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