Merle Shain Giving Quotations

Friendship is the gift that goes on giving and is a gift to both the person given to and to the giver as well. But to really make it work it isn't enough to give to another person, you have also to let them give to you.

you have to be very careful when you give to others that you don't tell them how great you are rather than how much you value them.

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.

The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.