With each passage of human growth we must shed a protective structure [like a hardy crustacean]. We are left exposed and vulnerable - but also yeasty and embryonic again, capable of stretching in ways we hadn't known before.
Source: Passages, 1976.
-- Gail Sheehy, (Nov 27 1937-____), US writer, journalist, editor; She is best known for Pathfinders: Predictable Crises of Adult Life, 1976.