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The idea that 'if you don't like how things are going, you can just leave' is so ingrained in Texas, the secession movement is no surprise.


Gail Collins

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GAIL SHEEHY To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist.
GAIL SHEEHY We hear the haunting presentiment of a dutiful middle age in the current reluctance of young people ...
GAIL SHEEHY When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking.
GAIL SHEEHY Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision...
GAIL DEVERS The best antidote I have found is to yearn for something. As long as you yearn, you can't congeal:...
GAIL GODWIN Fact: Girls who are having a good sex thing stay in New York. The rest want to spend their summer ...
GAIL PARENT Above all, be true to yourself, and if you cannot put your heart in it, take yourself out of it.
GAIL DEVERS I never really drank coffee in college, but now I'm on my feet all day and out all night and can...
GAIL SIMMONS In February 1991, I was rushed to the hospital in Los Angeles to have my feet amputated. Three years...
GAIL DEVERS I love The Inn at Palmetto Bluff, an Auberge Property in Bluffton, South Carolina. It's a specta...
GAIL SIMMONS Adapting to our Second Adulthood is not all about the money. It requires thinking about how to find ...
GAIL SHEEHY Changes are not only possible and predictable, but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's ...
GAIL SHEEHY When I got to be a CEO, I said: 'Right. I'm now going to tackle gender inequality head-on. I...
GAIL KELLY Patience is the secret to good food.
GAIL SIMMONS I do think taking the 20s to take the most chances you can is important, because you're not goin...
GAIL SHEEHY Eating a lot is an occupational hazard but it's a pretty great problem to have. I spend a lot of...
GAIL SIMMONS In my memoir, I admit that I've been as fearful of success as of failure. In fact, when 'Pas...
GAIL SHEEHY I will not compare myself with others, nor them with me. I will appreciate myself and others for wha...
GAIL BLANKE There are two kinds of people. One kind, you can just tell by looking at them at what point they con...
GAIL GODWIN If every day is an awakening, you will never grow old. You will just keep growing.
GAIL SHEEHY