Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of… — Merle Shain Life Copy Share Image
No marriage is one person's failure any more than it's one person's success, so it works best to see a marriage that… — Merle Shain Divorce Copy Share Image
We marry to grow up, to escape our parents and to inherit our share of the world, not knowing who we are… — Merle Shain Clear Copy Share Image
Sex deepens love and love deepens sex, so physical intimacy transforms everything and playing with it is playing with fire. — Merle Shain And love Copy Share Image
Our strength is in our dreams, and those who do not dare to dream damn themselves. — Merle Shain Damn Copy Share Image
Each of us is a seed, a silent promise, and it is always Spring. — Merle Shain Inspirational Copy Share Image
There are really only two ways to approach life - as victim or as gallant fighter - and you must decide if… — Merle Shain Acting Copy Share Image
Friends are like windows through which you see out into the world and back into yourself. If you don't have friends you… — Merle Shain Friendship Copy Share Image
The conflict between what one is and who one is expected to be touches all of us. And sometimes, rather than reach… — Merle Shain Chance Copy Share Image
The best kind of men have a certainty in themselves that isn't done in when countered by a certainty in their women,… — Merle Shain Certainty Copy Share Image
Men who take advantage of one woman take advantage of them all. — Merle Shain Advantage Copy Share Image
One can't run in a park without a dog or make angels in the snow without a child and there are things… — Merle Shain Amputation Copy Share Image
You can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you must win their hearts to have them work with… — Merle Shain Work Copy Share Image
It's hard to tell our good luck sometimes. Hard to tell sometimes for many years to come. And most of us have… — Merle Shain Fortune Copy Share Image
If there are no endings, there are no beginnings and you see no new lands, so for everything that's lost, there is… — Merle Shain Beginnings and endings Copy Share Image
I'm not sure there can be loving without commitment, although commitment takes all kinds of forms, and there can be commitment for… — Merle Shain Affair Copy Share Image
The dream of romantic love is taken more seriously in North America than it is anywhere else in the world, which is… — Merle Shain America Copy Share Image
Girls gave sex to get love and boys gave love to get sex and conning girls was the favorite indoor sport. — Merle Shain Boys Copy Share Image
One can never change the past, only the hold it has on you, and while nothing in your life is reversible, you… — Merle Shain Life Copy Share Image
There are many pages in the book, many kinds of lives we each can live, many ways to be rich, and even… — Merle Shain Book Copy Share Image
Cynicism is a form of cowardice, a failure of courage to hope. — Merle Shain Courage Copy Share Image
“It has been said that a lot of women of our generation "grew up to be the men they always wanted to… — Merle Shain Copy Share Image
The romantic myth is so strong that it survives the wear and tear of marriage by simply detaching from it and floating… — Merle Shain Bags Copy Share Image
The people in your life are like the pillars on your porch. Sometimes they hold you up, and sometimes they lean on… — Merle Shain Enough Copy Share Image
