Gail Sheehy (born November 27, 1937) is an American author, journalist, and lecturer. She is the author of sixteen books, including Passages (1976), named by the Library of Congress one of the ten most influential books of our times. Sheehy has written biographies and character studies of major twentieth-century leaders, including Hillary Clinton, both Presidents Bush, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev. Her latest book, "Daring: My Passages," (Sept. 2014) is a memoir.
On imagination: Creativity can be described as letting go of certainties.
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On growth: If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we are not really living.
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On self-respect: 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, and when you have enough, you have self-respect.
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Wrote "The Secret of Grey Gardens", a cover story for the 10 January 1972 issue of New York magazine, that brought the living conditions of Jacqueline Kennedy's aunt Edith Bouvier Beale and cousin Edith 'Little Edie' Bouvier Beale to the public eye. The lives of the aunt and cousin were later immortalized in the film, Grey Gardens (1975).
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