Gail Sheehy Quotes


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


Citations

Sheehy, Gail. Passages: Predictable Crises of Adult Life. E.P. Dutton, 1976, p. 25.

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  • Born: November 27, 1936
  • Died: August 24, 2020
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Journalist, Author

Gail Sheehy was an American author, journalist, and lecturer. She was the author of seventeen books and numerous high-profile articles for magazines such as New York and Vanity Fair. Sheehy played a part in the movement Tom Wolfe called the New Journalism, sometimes known as creative nonfiction, in which journalists and essayists experimented with adopting a variety of literary techniques such as scene setting, dialogue, status details to denote social class, and getting inside the story and sometimes reporting the thoughts of a central character.