Top 25 Quotes by Gail Sheehy of 61 - Page 3

Men are not given awards and promotions for bravery in intimacy.

Men are not given awards and promotions for bravery in intimacy.

Men, Awards, Bravery

Gail Sheehy (1977). “Passages: Predictable Crises of Adult Life”, Bantam

There is no more defiant denial of one man's ability to possess one woman exclusively than the prostitute who refuses to redeemed.

Gail Sheehy

Men, Denial, Prostitution

Gail Sheehy (1973). “Hustling: Prostitution in Our Wide Open Society”, New York : Delacorte Press

children may need challenges and high-risk conditions in order to develop the self-generated immunity to trauma that characterizes survivors. To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist.

Gail Sheehy

Children, Order, Self

It is a silly question to ask a prostitute why she does it ... These are the highest-paid 'professional' women in America.

Gail Sheehy

Silly, America, Doe

Gail Sheehy (1973). “Hustling: Prostitution in Our Wide Open Society”, New York : Delacorte Press

The one thing prostitution is not is a 'victimless crime.' It attracts a wide species of preying criminals and generates a long line of victims, beginning with the most obvious and least understood - the prostitute herself.

Gail Sheehy

Long, Criminals, Lines

Gail Sheehy (1973). “Hustling: Prostitution in Our Wide Open Society”, New York : Delacorte Press

With the only certainty in our daily existence being change, and a rate of change growing always faster in a kind of technological leapfrog game, speed helps people think they are catching up.

Gail Sheehy

Thinking, Games, People

To hear how special and wonderful we are is endlessly enthralling.

Gail Sheehy

Motivation, Special, Wonderful

Gail Sheehy (1977). “Passages: Predictable Crises of Adult Life”, Bantam

Since nobody upstages Rudolph Giuliani, his will be a Broadway-class show, perhaps his final bravura performance before November 2000, when he hopes to be turned out of the mayor's office by virtue of his election to the United States Senate.

Gail Sheehy

Class, Office, Broadway

"When Hillary Clinton and Rudy Giuliani Did Battle for a Senate Seat" by Gail Sheehy, www.vanityfair.com. June 2000.

Adolescents are like cockroaches: They come out the minute you leave town, crawl the walls, feed indiscriminately, reproduce alarmingly unless drugged, and will certainly outlast you.

Gail Sheehy

Wall, Cockroaches, Towns