Terry McMillan Quotes

Terry McMillan

American Author

Born: Oct 18, 1951

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Write from your heart, and God will take care of the rest. Terry McMillan

God Heart Care Will Rest Write Take Take Care Your

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

Life Cleaning Woman Mother My Life Live Everybody Everybody Else Else Everything Bit Writer Does African-American Little Little Bit Cook

Few writers are willing to admit writing is autobiographical. Terry McMillan

Writing Few Willing Admit Writers Autobiographical

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

People Result Own Think Other Would About My Own Empathetic Like Learn Am Least Affected Tragedies Just Being Experiences Compassionate

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 Women Those Identified Because Were Experiencing Them Stand Now

I'm not an angry woman. I'm not bitter. Terry McMillan

Angry Woman Bitter

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 Me People World Saved Everybody Way Small Put Town House Read Learned Were Representative Home Town Raised

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