Merle Shain
Merle Shain
Merle Shain was a Canadian author and journalist...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionAuthor
CountryCanada
american-musician employ hands hearts hire men work
You can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you must win their hearts to have them work with you.
american-musician learns
One often learns more from ten days of agony than ten years of contentment.
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.
love-is long understanding
Love is short, forgetting is long, and understanding longer still.
cynicism cowardice form
Cynicism is a form of cowardice, a failure of courage to hope.
divorce views grandparent
Perhaps the old view of 'Me breadwinner, you hausfrau' worked for our grandparents, when people obligingly popped off before boring each other to death, but it won't work any longer because we are living too long and divorce is needed today to do what death acomplished more economically before.
journey emotional thinking
Feelings take you into uncharted territory from time to time it's true, but you almost always benefit from the journey one way or the other. We tend to think of the rational as a higher order, but it is the emotional that marks our lives.
men perfect
Some men are more perfect than others.
moon names rockets
Most women would rather have someone whisper their name at optimum moments than rocket with contractions to the moon.
giving careful values
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.
men cynical cynicism
You can tell a lot about what a man lacks by watching what he is cynical about, and many of us are cynical about love.