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Quote by Gail Sheehy
Would that there were an award for people who come to understand t

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

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

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To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves – there lies the great, singular power of self-respect. – Joan Didion

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No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect. – George Bernard Shaw

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He that respects himself is safe from others; he wears a coat of mail that none can pierce. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Respect for ourselves guides our morals; respect for others guides our manners. – Laurence Sterne

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