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I don't let negative criticism, for the most part, bother me.

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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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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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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It goes without saying that your friends are usually the first to discuss your personal business behind your back.
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happiness aint got no Ph.D. or no certain amount of zeroes behind it!
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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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At least be a nice lesbian or you're going to give the rest a bad rap.
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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've got tons of irreplaceable information inside the soul of this computer.
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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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It's amazing how we can make ourselves believe what we want to.
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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 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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Good parents have children who do terrible things and vice-versa.
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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 let my characters do the talking, simple as that.
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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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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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