One often learns more from ten days of agony than ten years of contentment.

Her books included Some Men Are More Perfect Than Others When Lovers Are Friends Hearts That We Broke Long Ago and Courage My Love. As a journalist Merle Shain worked as a feature writer for the Toronto Telegram as an associate editor of Chatelaine as a columnist for the Toronto Sun and as a host of the CTV news program W5.

She also served for four years as a member of the board of the National Film Board of Canada. Merle Shain (1935-1989) was a Canadian author and journalist.