Terry McMillan Quotes

“You know, one of my fears about living alone so long is that you get used to doing everything your own way.”

“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.”

“Is our desire for partnership just an evolutionary remainder, a Togetherness Delusion, where millions of women only think they need a relationship to be truly happy? Maybe. But you know what? That's fine with me.”

“Because I was a television writer for many years, I write very conversationally. I put things straight, and with a lot of humor.”

“A meow massages the heart.”

“The wisest use of these skills is to develop habits, lives, and loves, not to use them just occasionally in single interactions.”

“oh love, doesn’t the fact that the world is so big,laid out like ripe fruitmake you want to stay?”

“Being one’s true and honest self can often be dangerous; and poetry should always be a place where, if only between the pages, that danger and energy and fear and excitement and love can fizz and spark without ever threatening to burn something down.”

“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.”

“Freedom cannot recognize as law the commands and doctrines of other human beings.”