Gail Sheehy Book Quotations

I've had the experience of having a book praised but then it doesn't sell. Or not praised but then it sells.

I was devastated when I got the review for my first book. The book came out a couple years before the women's movement broke through, and people were putting it down, asking, 'Why does the woman in this book need to get a divorce? Why can't she just shut up and be happy?'