Merle Shain
Merle Shain
Merle Shain was a Canadian author and journalist...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionAuthor
CountryCanada
life strong lying
The answer doesn't lie in learning how to protect ourselves from life-it lies in learning how to become strong enough to let a bit more of it in.
people pillars sometimes
The people in your life are like the pillars on your porch. Sometimes they hold you up, and sometimes they lean on you. Sometimes it's enough to know they are standing by.
waiting live-in-the-moment despair
The day you spend hoping, the day you spend waiting, the day you spend in despair, is a day in your life as much as the tomorrow you hope for, but which may never come, so betting today on tomorrow is always a bad bet.
girl sports sex
Girls gave sex to get love and boys gave love to get sex and conning girls was the favorite indoor sport.
men perfect use
There are no perfect men of course, but some are more perfect than others, and we can use all of those we can get.
dream falling-in-love believe
The dream of romantic love is taken more seriously in North America than it is anywhere else in the world, which is why we believe in fidelity and why we believe in infidelity as well. It is also, of course, what makes our divorce rate as high as it is. Falling in love at first sight and instant gratification are part of the world in which we live, so there are people who believe adamantly in fidelity. They just don't believe in it for long.
men done kind
The best kind of men have a certainty in themselves that isn't done in when countered by a certainty in their women, and they are much adored.
men advantage one-woman
Men who take advantage of one woman take advantage of them all ...
marriage loneliness giving
Marriage is supposed to do everything, like Duz, which is more than half its problem. It is said to save us, define us, give us purpose, keep us from loneliness, and incidentally balance our diet and wash our socks, and when it doesn't, we get divorced.
marriage growing-up night
We marry to grow up, to escape our parents and to inherit our share of the world, not knowing who we are and who we will become, so it is left to marriage to make it clear which ones of us are growing in the same directions and which are ships meant to have passed in the night.
humility men play
Our times are obsessed with finding fulfillment, so there are times when some people try too hard, and there are people who want to have the newest feelings just as there are those who want to have the latest model car. You can't play at love any more than you can be proud of your humility, or add water to your perfume and have it smell the same, but men and women both have been known to try.
love-is long understanding
Love is short, forgetting is long, and understanding longer still.
decision daring
There are some decisions in life that only you can make.
thanksgiving blessing giving
The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.