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Quote by Gail Sheehy
When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women

When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking. – Gail Sheehy

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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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Self-Respect
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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

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Conservatism
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There are days in retirement that are the waking equivalent of a dreamless sleep, if you know what I mean. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Retirement is the ugliest word in the language. – Ernest Hemingway

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Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples. – George Burns

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Dont you stay at home of evenings? Don you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet? – Oliver Wendell Holmes

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