Stephanie Mills Quotes

I hate Valentine's day. It is a day for nothing but disappointment.

Breakups just hit you harder when you're younger. When I was a teenager, it felt like the most depressing thing in the world if a boy I was infatuated with didn't like me back!

I kept thinking I was always going to meet the right man, but I never did. Kept waiting for this knight in shining armour. 'When's he coming? He's taking a long time, isn't he?'

I suppose John ought to be the center of my life, but he's not because he's out of it so much of the time.

Men say, 'I've loved you since I was 7 years old,' and I say, 'Well, you never contacted me.' And very often women say, 'Do youuuuuu know what I have?' and I want to say, 'Yessssssss, I do.' Because inevitably the answer is, 'An original Shirley Temple doll.'

Crushes start out as that teenage phenomenon, life-affirming and cute, but as you wander into adulthood, they seem to end up more painful, harrowing, and uncertain, especially if you have just come out of the relationship you thought would finally, maybe, maybe be the one that stuck.

I have stopped expecting from films. What I expect never happens.

Only one man ever understood me, and he didn't understand me.

There is no dream of love, however ideal it may be, which does not end up with a fat, greedy baby hanging from the breast.

The loss of young first love is so painful that it borders on the ludicrous.

I know what it's like to have someone coming home who looks at you not in the way they used to in the old days, and I've seen my own face contorted with sadness and rage in the mirror.

You have no idea of the people I didn't marry.

Fabio kept asking me out, but I knew we'd never get his ego through the door.

The things I wanted to do from a very early age - ie. get married and have children - precluded a lot of guys my own age from wanting to have anything to do with me.

Michael Jackson has some contact with his mother. I know she is involved with the children.

I've actually never been taken on a date in my whole life.

I've definitely had the experience where I was pursuing someone for a long time that I just obviously did not connect with, so I was always, kind of altering myself for her, But then you realize it's just not worth it. What's the point?

He has so often told me he is madly in love with me, but what does that mean when I haven't had a good word from him in three months?

When I was 15, I had a crush on this guy who was really good at magic, and so I learned to juggle, thinking it would impress him. I spent hours and hours practicing, planning to show him. And then I never even saw him again. But at least I learned how to juggle.

Few things can make us feel crazier than expecting something from someone who has nothing to give.

Now that I have found someone, I'm feeling more alone... than I ever have before.

Many women get involved with a man that you pretty much know isn't suitable and you're kind of breaking your rules, but he's attractive in some unknown way. And then he doesn't even realize what a sacrifice you're making by being with him and he dumps you!

The blind date that has stood you up: your life.

I've dated people who I thought were going to be a big deal in my life, and I've also spent long periods by myself.

Literally, I kissed a girl, and, like, a week later, she broke up with me. I was like, 'Oh my God, was it that bad?!'