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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.

Terry McMillan

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Terry McMillan
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: October 18
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Novelist
Screenwriter
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Port Huron
Michigan
Disgusted
Aged
Naked
Middle
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I let my characters do the talking, simple as that.
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People like to run their mouths.
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Good parents have children who do terrible things and vice-versa.
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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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I don't let negative criticism, for the most part, bother me.
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Pay attention to the things that agitate you. It will tell you a lot about yourself.
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People always have something to say about what you do and how you do it.
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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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Parents can ruin children, and sometimes that's a learned behavior. Sometimes you can't blame your parents for it, sometimes you can. I think to me, that's what the whole paradox is, is people that have children that don't even know how to raise them.
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It's amazing how we can make ourselves believe what we want to.
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I don't trust white critics' judgment about most things that deal with black life, particularly when a black person is the creator.
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Wherever there's a prison, for the most part, especially where there's Black people, it's overcrowded. I don't know who really gets out.
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I take what people feel and think, especially when it's different from, very seriously, and I find it liberating.
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