Carol Shields — Canadian Author born on May 16, 1935, died on July 16, 2003

Carol Ann Shields, CC OM FRSC 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 Governor General's Award in Canada... (wikipedia)

There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.
Words are our life. We are human because we use language. So I think we are less human when we use less language.
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.
I'm concerned about the unknowability of other people.