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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.
Terry McMillan
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Terry McMillan
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: October 18
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We get divorce, we get conned, someone we love dies, or we can't find anybody to love us or somebody breaks our heart and we realize this fairy tale ain't fair. So we suffer.
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I let my characters do the talking, simple as that.
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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've got tons of irreplaceable information inside the soul of this computer.
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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 take what people feel and think, especially when it's different from, very seriously, and I find it liberating.
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I try to create characters that I am fascinated by on some level or intrigued by or can't stand.
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What I do know is sometimes we love the wrong people and sometimes we marry them.
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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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Back then I confused passions and orgasms with love. It look me years to realize the two weren't synonymous.
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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 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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I like doing the readings and the autographing, but the interviewing gets a little tedious because you get asked the same questions every day and sometimes three or four times a day.
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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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