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
Although there are many trial marriages… there is no such thing as a trial child. – 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
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