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Writing is my shelter. I don't hide behind the words I use them to dig inside my heart to find the truth.
Terry McMillan
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Terry McMillan
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: October 18
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Port Huron
Michigan
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Folks want to glow, to leave their worries and dead skin behind.
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Pay attention to the things that agitate you. It will tell you a lot about yourself.
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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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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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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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happiness aint got no Ph.D. or no certain amount of zeroes behind it!
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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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