Carol Shields Men Quotations

The silence is perfect, and yet a torment ...

Why should men be allowed to strut under the privilege of their life adventures, wearing them like a breast full of medals, while women went all gray and silent beneath the weight of theirs?

nothing she did or said was quite what she meant but still her life could be called a monument shaped in a slant of available light and set to the movement of possible music

Men are portrayed as buffoons these days and I was trying not to do that, but men are the ultimate mystery to me.