Being a pathfinder is to be willing to risk failure and still go on.

— Gail Sheehy

Changes are not only possible and predictable but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary vegetation.

— Gail Sheehy

Changes are not predictable but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary vegetation.

— Gail Sheehy

Creativity could be described as letting go of certainties.

— Gail Sheehy

Growth demands a temporary surrender of security.

— Gail Sheehy

I do think taking the 20s to take the most chances you can is important, because you're not going to hurt anyone else during that time. And if you do have a partner, you need a couple of years to rehearse that relationship.

— Gail Sheehy

I found that female pathfinders generally integrate characteristics commonly associated with being women - like the capacity to be intimate - with 'male' ones like ambition and courage.

— Gail Sheehy

In my memoir, I admit that I've been as fearful of success as of failure. In fact, when 'Passages' was published, I so dreaded bad reviews that I ran away to Italy with a girlfriend and our children to hide out.

— Gail Sheehy

In rough times, pathfinders rely on work, friends, humor and prayer. They develop a support network.

— Gail Sheehy

The delights of self-discovery are always available.

— Gail Sheehy