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

Other quotes by Gail Sheehy

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

Category:
Conservatism
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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

Category:
Self-Respect
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There is no more defiant denial of one mans ability to possess one woman exclusively than the prostitute who refuses to redeemed. – Gail Sheehy

Category:
Prostitution
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Other Quotes from
Retirement
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When a man retires and time is no longer a matter of urgent importance, his colleagues generally present him with a watch. – R.C. Sherriff

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Retirement

Retirement kills more people than hard work ever did. – Malcolm Forbes

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Retirement

Retirement without the love of letters is a living burial. – Seneca

Category:
Retirement

I am a free man. I feel as light as a feather. – Javier Perez De Cuellar

Category:
Retirement

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I had the good fortune of having a happy, closely knit family. – Carlos Fuentes

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Family

I see nothing for you on this earth but that field which I once christened Briars; go out upon that, build yourself a hut, and there begin the grand process of devouring yourself alive. I see no alternative, no other hope for you. – William Ellery Channing

Category:
Solitude

This society in which we live is radically changing. What previous generations saw as evil is now embraced as being good. It is a dangerous and slippery slope upon which we stand when we reject what Solomon called the beginning of wisdom – the fear of God. – Ray Comfort

Category:
Wisdom

Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive. – Theodore Roosevelt

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Presidents Day