We hear the haunting presentiment of a dutiful middle age in the current reluctance of young people to select any option except the one they feel will impinge upon them the least. – Gail Sheehy
If we dont change, we dont grow. If we dont grow, we arent really living. – Gail Sheehy
When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking. – Gail Sheehy
Although there are many trial marriages… there is no such thing as a trial child. – Gail Sheehy
The word conservative is used by the BBC as a portmanteau word of abuse for anyone whose views differ from the insufferable, smug, sanctimonious, naive, guilt-ridden, wet, pink orthodoxy of that sunset home of the third-rate minds of that third-rate decade, the nineteen-sixties. – Norman Tebbit