Influences
Books from Sheehy’s Passages series remain largely influential in American culture. A Library of Congress survey named Passages one of the 10 most-influential books of our time.
Sheehy introduced terms that have passed into the American lexicon: Passages, Pulling Up Roots; Catch-30; Age 40 Crucible; Deadline Decade; The Sexual Diamond; Second Adulthood.
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Famous quotes containing the word influences:
“Professors of literature, who for the most part are genteel but mediocre men, can make but a poor defense of their profession, and the professors of science, who are frequently men of great intelligence but of limited interests and education, feel a politely disguised contempt for it; and thus the study of one of the most pervasive and powerful influences on human life is traduced and neglected.”
—Yvor Winters (1900–1968)
“Do not seek anxiously to be developed, to subject yourself to many influences to be played on; it is all dissipation.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Without looking, then, to those extraordinary social influences which are now acting in precisely this direction, but only at what is inevitably doing around us, I think we must regard the land as a commanding and increasing power on the citizen, the sanative and Americanizing influence, which promises to disclose new virtues for ages to come.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)