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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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Terry McMillan
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: October 18
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Novelist
Screenwriter
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Port Huron
Michigan
Aged
Naked
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Disgusted

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I would like to think that as a result of not just my own experiences, but at least being empathetic and compassionate about other people's experiences and plights and tragedies, that I am affected by it and learn from it.
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We never thought some guy would deliberately fill our hearts with brown sugar and then pour hot water all over 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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I want to push the fast-forward button until I get back to happy.
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My stories are character driven.
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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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Good parents have children who do terrible things and vice-versa.
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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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Writing is the only place I can be myself and not feel judged.
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Pay attention to the things that agitate you. It will tell you a lot about yourself.
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I love writing in first person more than third. I have to basically suspend my own world. I don't exist. I'm just a conduit. So I can be eight years old. I can be the mother of a kid that you find out certain things I'm not going to say.
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People need to be re - sometimes we need to reinvent ourselves and then get reacquainted with our better selves.
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I'm more interested in interpersonal relationships - between lovers families, siblings. That's why I write about how we treat each other.
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I used to get a lot of letters from prisoners. It used to get on my nerves. Especially family members. Everybody's innocent.
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Cruising the Internet doesn't count as writing. Neither does answering e-mail. Before you check Twitter & FB and do other similar tasks that get in the way of writing, write first. (I really need to take my own advice here!)
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It's amazing how we can make ourselves believe what we want to.
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I've got tons of irreplaceable information inside the soul of this computer.
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I don't let negative criticism, for the most part, bother me.
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People always have something to say about what you do and how you do it.
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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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