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Carol Shields  Quotes
Women were supposed to be strong, but they weren’t really, they weren’t allowed to be.

—Carol Shields

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FeminismStrongWomen
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Open a book this minute and start reading. Don’t move until you’ve reached page fifty. Until you’ve buried your thoughts in print. Cover yourself with words. Wash yourself away. Dissolve.

—Carol Shields

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…she herself loved the character of Elizabeth Bennet. “I must confess that I think her as delightful a creature as ever appeared in print, and how I shall be able to tolerate those who do...

—Carol Shields

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Biography
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Safety was one thing, but what he really wanted was to be electrified, to be wounded, to be cast into the wilderness, to be released, to be exalted, and most especially to be surrounded by...

—Carol Shields

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Happiness is the lucky pane of glass you carry in your head. It takes all your cunning just to hang on to it, and once it’s smashed you have to move into a different sort...

—Carol Shields

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Happiness
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I remember that I did feel, starting my mini-tour, the resident anxiety you develop when you know you’ve been too lucky; at any moment, maybe next Tuesday afternoon, I would be stricken with something unbearable.

—Carol Shields

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For some, religion is the cement that seals shut their door on the world

—Carol Shields

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Bookish people, who are often maladroit people, persist in thinking they can master any subtlety so long as it’s been shaped into acceptable expository prose.

—Carol Shields

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BibliophilesBooksReaders
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His father, that austere, unfeeling and untutored man, had insisted his sons polish their boots every evening. Flett has learned to be grateful for this early discipline. It kept him breathing as a boy, provided...

—Carol Shields

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Here’s to another year and let’s hope it’s above ground.

—Carol Shields

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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?

—Carol Shields

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AdventureWomen
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Dorrie gave Larry’s hand an excited, distracted squeeze that said: almost home. They were about to be matter-of-factly claimed by familiar streets and houses and the life they’d chosen or which had chosen them.

—Carol Shields

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