Gail Sheehy Quotes

My dad always tell me to make decisions from love and not from fear.

I'm a strong alpha male but sensitive.

I love women who are bosses and who don't constantly worry about what their employees think of them. I love women who don't ask, "Is that OK?" after everything they say. I love when women are courageous in the face of unthinkable circumstances, like my mother when she was diagnosed with stage IV pancreatic cancer. Or like Gabrielle Giffords writing editorials for the New York Times about the cowardice of Congress regarding gun laws and using phrases like "mark my words" like she is Clint Eastwood. How many women say stuff like that?

In my experience as CEO, I found that the most important decisions tested my courage far more than my intelligence.

It takes courage to know when you ought to be afraid.

I try to be feminine, yet intellectual and smart at the same time. You don't see enough of that.

I like being a woman, but I'm a little rough around the edges. I've been bungee jumping twice, but I was scared.

I really want women to throw their shoulders back and stand up straight and use their big girl voices and not feel like they're compromising their femininity to be strong and smart.

I took a gamble to exercise leadership without losing my feminine nature.

The essence of my work, and of me, is the softer side of a strong woman, and that goes into a number of different roles.

I was an extreme tomboy. I did competitive gymnastics for over 10 years. I cut my hair like Winona Ryder, with that little pixie cut.

A woman who looks like a girl and thinks like a man is the best sort, the most enjoyable to be and the most pleasurable to have and to hold.

Sometimes I think that the biggest difference between men and women is that more men need to seek out some terrible lurking thing in existence and hurl themselves upon it. Women know where it lives but they can let it alone.

My biggest strength is I'm courageous, or if I am afraid of something, I do it anyway. I do what I feel. It's nothing personal against anyone, so that courageousness has been very good to me.

I want to behave more like a boy... I want to be the strong one.

I am so attracted to ambition and drive and talent. If a man loves something and can put his heart into it, I am instantly into him. I like a strong man who can be in control and make decisions but who is sensitive and attentive. That is the perfect combination.

It really is about the heart of a woman that makes her beautiful.

Fear is the enemy. I distrust it. Any feeling or decision I make that might be motivated by fear I quickly reassess.

Woman are complex creatures.

As a kid, I was always a tomboy, playing sport and doing martial arts. And I'm pretty opinionated - I've never been told that I'm a weak person.

In all the difficult decisions that I made through the course of running Loudcloud and Opsware, I never once felt brave. In fact, I often felt scared to death. I never lost those feelings, but after much practice, I learned to ignore them. That learning process might also be called the courage development process.

I just give off this kind of feminine vibe which has... served me so well with women in my life.

As a girl, I am this stupid, emotional, very loyal, sort of believe-in-values-and-principals sort of girl.

He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

We women must listen to our inner voice. It is easier for women to do this as they are not afraid to say what they feel.