Gail Sheehy Men Quotations

There is no more defiant denial of one man's ability to possess one woman exclusively than the prostitute who refuses to redeemed.

Because men have to, and women can chose to. Women remind men and guilt them into it.

The fundamental steps of expansion that will open a person, over time, to the full flowering of his or her individuality are the same for both genders. But men and women are rarely in the same place struggling with the same questions at the same age.

Men are not given awards and promotions for bravery in intimacy.

If menopause is the silent passage, 'male menopause' is the unspeakable passage. It is fraught with secrecy, shame, and denial. It is much more fundamental than the ending of the fertile period of a woman's life, because it strikes at the core of what it is to be a man.