Terry McMillan Quotes

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Now, I've been known to be attractive on special occasions, and I do my best to project as much beauty as I can muster from deep inside, though I often fail.

Terry McMillan
It should be obvious that I wasn't no honor roll student in high school. My favorite class was boys.

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I worry about if and when I'll ever find the right man, if I'll ever be able to exhale.

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Instead of wasting my time wishing and hoping, sleeping with self-pity and falling in love over and over again with ghosts, I'm going to stop concentrating so hard on what's missing in my life and be grateful for what I've got.... And if there's a man out there who's willing to ride or walk or run or even fly with me, he'll show up. Probably out of nowhere. I'm just not going to hold my breath.

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I have pretty much come to the conclusion that marriage itself is a dead-end institution. I'm not doing it again. All I want is a little companion. No ring. No "I do till death do us part," because I said that once and we're both still very much alive.

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Sometimes I cheat and buy things I used to make from scratch and just doctor them up.

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I remember the day I turned thirty. I was getting out of the shower and I stood in front of the mirror and stared at myself for a long time. I examined every inch of my body and appreciated the fact that I finally looked like a grown woman. I also assumed that this was how I was going to look for the rest of my life. The way I saw it, I was never going to age; I'd just look up one day and be old.

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I been saying it for years: church is full of sneaky men posing as honest souls, and they are perpetuators our here looking for women just like you, with giant holes in your hearts, and they can smell when you got a good job and when you lonely as hell.

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A man's mind is about the strongest thing he got going for him.

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I also discovered that you can get used to a man, much like you do a household pet!

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It's amazing how we can make ourselves believe what we want to.

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I'm not trying to be a middle aged centerfold, I just want to look at myself naked and not be disgusted.

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Being a lifetime wife and mother has afforded me the luxury of having multiple careers: I've been a teacher. A chauffeur. A chef. An interior decorator. A landscape architect, as well as a gardener. I've been a painter. A personal shopper. An accountant and a banker. I've been a beautician. Santa Claus. The Tooth Fairy. A movie reviewer. A nurse. A psychologist. A negotiator. An I have a Ph. D in How to Pretend Like You Don't Mind.

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Can't nothin' make your life work if you ain't the architect.

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Why is it that if you happen to be black and over six feet tall, everybody thinks you supposed to play basketball or football?

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Too many of us are hung up on what we don't have, can't have, or won't ever have. We spend too much energy being down, when we could use that same energy — if not less of it — doing, or at least trying to do, some of the things we really want to do.

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You've been killing me inside and I don't want to die like this.

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What I do know is sometimes we love the wrong people and sometimes we marry them.

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It's not that marriage itself is bad; it's the people we marry who give it a bad name.

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I want to push the fast-forward button until I get back to happy.

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Money does not guarantee happiness or peace of mind, it can take your mind off things, distract you, but it can't replace the generic stuff a person needs!

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It goes without saying that your friends are usually the first to discuss your personal business behind your back.

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I was tired of chasing ghosts, hollow men who were outside my comfort zone, men who had nothing to give me except a rush. It was all I asked for, and all I ever got.

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At least be a nice lesbian or you're going to give the rest a bad rap.

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Folks want to glow, to leave their worries and dead skin behind.

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I'd crack up without my music. It's the best company you can have, really. It don't say 'no' or 'maybe,' or ask no questions.

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I've got tons of irreplaceable information inside the soul of this computer.

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They say love is a two-way street. But I don't believe it, because the one I've been on for the last two years was a dirt road.

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The best rush in the world is getting something at 80 percent off.

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I would be content being a housewife if I could find the kind of man who wouldn't treat me like one.

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