What I do know is sometimes we love the wrong people and sometimes we marry them. Terry McMillan More Quotes by Terry McMillan More Quotes From Terry McMillan 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. Terry McMillan divorce suffering heart 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 i-can waiting I'm not an angry woman. I'm not bitter. Terry McMillan angry-women angry bitter Look, as my mama always said, 'One monkey don't stop no show. Terry McMillan monkeys mama looks It's not that marriage itself is bad; it's the people we marry who give it a bad name. Terry McMillan names giving people I used to get a lot of letters from prisoners. It used to get on my nerves. Especially family members. Everybody's innocent. Terry McMillan innocent nerves letters 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. Terry McMillan black prison people People always have something to say about what you do and how you do it. Terry McMillan people I take what people feel and think, especially when it's different from, very seriously, and I find it liberating. Terry McMillan different people thinking What's universal is the texture of our relationships. It's evolving. Times are changing with the women's movement. Men's roles are being redefined and, in some ways, they're confused. Terry McMillan being women confused men I'm a fast writer. Terry McMillan fast writer It takes me forever to say my prayers these days, but I don't care, because this time around, I want to make sure God doesn't have to do any guesswork. Terry McMillan me care god time I don't live my life as a writer. I'm a mother, an African-American woman, and I do everything that everybody else does - cook and a little bit of cleaning. Terry McMillan woman my-life mother life Every human being I know craves love and affection. Terry McMillan human-being know affection love
