Gail Sheehy Quotes
Adapting to our Second Adulthood is not all about the money. It requires thinking about how to find a new locus of identity or how to adjust to a spouse who stops working and who may loll, enjoying coffee and reading the paper online while you're still commuting.

Quotes to Explore
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My life is proof that I don't need you to do what I do. If there's no one to see it, I'll watch it.
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Furniture is meant to be used and enjoyed.
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To model yourself after Steve Jobs is like, 'I'd like to paint like Picasso, what should I do? Should I use more red?'
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I got to write most of everything I said.
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I don't know how people recognize me.
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I don't think I'm a follower, frankly.
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Rock and Roll has no beginning and no end for it is the very pulse of life itself.
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Detroit's industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.
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Often you see big companies, big banks who are eager to embrace crushing regulatory burdens because they drive up everyone's costs.
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I'm a natural blonde!
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The key to fashion is, you don't want to look like you're trying. You've gotta be natural.
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I'll be a wife and mother first, then First Lady.
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Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.
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I have my life on a track that I want it on, and I don't want to get off.
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The fear of hell, or aiming to be blest, savors too much of private interest.
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I really admire paintings that look like an actual snapshot - I think that's just extraordinary.
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It's probably an intellectual weakness, but I look at the stars, and I say, 'There's something bigger than us out there.'
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The magic of creation has always fascinated me.
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I never felt interpretation was my job.
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Even in a society as tightly controlled as Singapore's, the market creates certain forces which perhaps in the long run may lead to democracy.
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I was a narrative historian, believing more and more as I matured that the first function of the historian was to answer the child's question, 'What happened next?'
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A man searching for paradise lost can seem a fool to those who never sought the other world.
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Adapting to our Second Adulthood is not all about the money. It requires thinking about how to find a new locus of identity or how to adjust to a spouse who stops working and who may loll, enjoying coffee and reading the paper online while you're still commuting.