"Carol Ann Shields", was an American-born Canadian author. She is best known for her 1993 novel The Stone Diaries, which won the U.S. Pulitzer Prize for Fiction as well as the 1993 Governor General's Awards/Governor General's Award in Canada.

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

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I don't think I would have been a writer if I hadn't been a mother. I wanted to construct something that contained some of these feelings that I had, some of these discoveries or revelations.

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It was a very emotional time.

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There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

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