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We really only have two choices. Play it safe, or take a chance. For me, pulling back because of fear has always made me feel worse.


Gail Sheehy

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GAIL PORTER Bald is the new black!
GAIL PORTER Back in the '70s when my friends in California were at Berkeley, in-state tuition was around $70...
GAIL COLLINS There is no better way to bring people together than with desserts.
GAIL SIMMONS I'm sort of suspicious of most economic development projects, but the ones that encourage taxpay...
GAIL COLLINS When all else fails, dress beautifully and throw your food.
GAIL CARRIGER Actually, I have only two things to worry about now: afterlife and reincarnation.
GAIL PARENT I don't think the folks in the low-tax states really want to go into a fairness discussion. Resi...
GAIL COLLINS Once when I was working for the Daily News, I was summoned back to work from vacation because Donald...
GAIL COLLINS I'm a very consistent leader, and people won't find me different day to day. You won't h...
GAIL KELLY Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language.
GAIL GODWIN You can choose not to sit on the fence. You can choose not to criticise. You must stand as guard at ...
GAIL KELLY I mean it today. And tomorrow, it will be today again, and I will mean it for that today. It's alway...
GAIL DAYTON How ghastly for her, people actually thinking, with their brains, and right next door. Oh, the trave...
GAIL CARRIGER The middle of 'America's Women' is about the Civil War, and how women, black and white, ...
GAIL COLLINS Every person is responsible for all the good within the scope of his abilities, and for no more, a...
GAIL HAMILTON Overall we had a great team effort. It was good to get the win under tough conditions.
GAIL ANDERSEN We were all ready to play. Hopefully we'll schedule it for next week sometime.
GAIL ANDERSEN