Terry McMillan Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

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“Being a lifetime wife and mother has afforded me the luxury of having multiple careers: I've been a teacher. A chauffeur. A chef. An interior decorator. A landscape architect, as well as a gardener. Iâ€™ve been a painter. A personal shopper. An accountant and a banker. Iâ€™ve been a beautician. Santa Claus. The Tooth Fairy. A movie reviewer. A nurse. A psychologist. A negotiator. An I have a Ph. D in How to Pretend Like You Donâ€™t Mind.”
-- Terry McMillan

#Mother #Teacher #Careers
“Too many of us are hung up on what we don't have, can't have, or won't ever have. We spend too much energy being down, when we could use that same energy â€“ if not less of it â€“ doing, or at least trying to do, some of the things we really want to do.”
-- Terry McMillan

#Success #Trying #Use
“Folks want to glow, to leave their worries and dead skin behind.”
-- Terry McMillan

#Worry #Skins #Want
“I like to think of what happens to characters in good novels and stories as knots--things keep knotting up. And by the end of the story--readers see an unknotting of sorts. Not what you expect, not the easy answers you get on TV, not wash and wear philosophies, but a reproduction of believable, emotional experiences.”
-- Terry McMillan

#Philosophy #Character #Emotional
“I'm more interested in interpersonal relationships - between lovers families, siblings. That's why I write about how we treat each other.”
-- Terry McMillan

#Sibling #Writing #Lovers
“Few writers are willing to admit writing is autobiographical.”
-- Terry McMillan

#Writing #Willing
“don't sabotage your own greatness by succumbing to failure!”
-- Terry McMillan

#Greatness #Sabotage
“happiness aint got no Ph.D. or no certain amount of zeroes behind it!”
-- Terry McMillan

#Certain #Behinds
“I don't trust white critics' judgment about most things that deal with black life, particularly when a black person is the creator.”
-- Terry McMillan

#White #Black #Judgment
“It's sad to think that we've gotten to this that we actually have to think about how to go about finding a man. But what's even sadder is that some men make you feel guilty for looking.”
-- Terry McMillan

#Men #Thinking #Guilty
“I try to create characters that I am fascinated by on some level or intrigued by or can't stand.”
-- Terry McMillan

#Character #Trying #Levels
“I also discovered that you can get used to a man , much like you do a household pet!”
-- Terry McMillan

#Men #Pet #Like You
“I don't let negative criticism, for the most part, bother me.”
-- Terry McMillan

#Criticism #Negative #Bother
“It should be obvious that I wasn't no honor roll student in high school. My favorite class was boys.”
-- Terry McMillan

#School #Boys #Class
“I would be content being a housewife if I could find the kind of man who wouldn't treat me like one.”
-- Terry McMillan

#Men #Would Be #Kind
“As far as young kids go, my primary interest is to get parents to read to their kids. That's about the most you can do, I think.”
-- Terry McMillan

#Kids #Thinking #Parent
“Sometimes I cheat and buy things I used to make from scratch and just doctor them up.”
-- Terry McMillan

#Doctors #Scratches #Sometimes
“I'm the only one who can stop me.. I'm the one who's been sitting at the stoplight all these years, waiting for the light to turn green.”
-- Terry McMillan

#Years #Light #Waiting
“If you jump to conclusions, you make terrible landings.”
-- Terry McMillan

#Terrible #Conclusion #Landing
“It's amazing how we can make ourselves believe what we want to.”
-- Terry McMillan

#Believe #Want
“I can't stand that - those women in 'Waiting to Exhale' now. I can't stand them. But that's because I'm 53 and not 33. But what they were experiencing at 33, I identified with it.”
-- Terry McMillan

#Waiting
“I'm not an angry woman. I'm not bitter.”
-- Terry McMillan

#Bitter #Angry Women #Angry
“I let my characters do the talking, simple as that.”
-- Terry McMillan

#Character #Simple #Talking
“People need to be re - sometimes we need to reinvent ourselves and then get reacquainted with our better selves.”
-- Terry McMillan

#Self #People #Needs
“Why is it that if you happen to be black and over six feet tall, everybody thinks you supposed to play basketball or football?”
-- Terry McMillan

#Basketball #Football #Thinking
“I'd crack up without my music. It's the best company you can have, really. It don't say 'no' or 'maybe,' or ask no questions.”
-- Terry McMillan

#Music #Cracks #Company
“It's not that marriage itself is bad; it's the people we marry who give it a bad name.”
-- Terry McMillan

#Names #People #Giving
“Pay attention to the things that agitate you. It will tell you a lot about yourself.”
-- Terry McMillan

#Attention #Pay #Pay Attention
“Let me put it this way: when I read, I learned the world was not as small as my house. And that everybody in my home town was not representative of the way people in the world were raised. And that was what saved me.”
-- Terry McMillan

#Home #People #House
“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.”
-- Terry McMillan

#Thinking #People #Tragedy

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