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:
“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)
“The tourist who moves about to see and hear and open himself to all the influences of the places which condense centuries of human greatness is only a man in search of excellence.”
—Max Lerner (b. 1902)
“The first in time and the first in importance of the influences upon the mind is that of nature. Every day, the sun; and after sunset, night and her stars. Ever the winds blow; ever the grass grows.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)