"To discover to the world something which deeply concerns it, and of which it was previously ignorant; to prove to it that it had been mistaken on some vital point of temporal or spiritual interest, is as important a service as a human being can render to his fellow creatures..."
John Stuart Mill, "On Liberty"
Tuesday, August 25, 2020
Gail Sheehy: In Memoriam
I guess it’s just that we are all getting older, but these In Memoriam programs are coming much too frequently lately…...Over the years I had the opportunity to do five interviews with Gail Sheehy. Beginning in May of 1998 we talked about everything from Men's Passages, to older women, Hillary Clinton, and the changes in middle America. Our last conversation was in the fall of 2014 upon the publication of her memoir Daring: My Passages: A Memoir. Photo: Carolyn Cole/LA Times My conversation with Gail Sheehy from October of 2014: