Terry McMillan Quotes

When I got married to Raja in 1999, I was 19; I was too young to understand that he was not the right guy for me.

Marriages that made out of love (so-called "love-matches") have error as their father and misery (necessity) as their mother.

People struggle in marriages and more than 55% of people get divorced.

The reason why you date people is to get to know who you're gonna marry and spend the rest of your life with

I have seen the breakups between people who love each other and rush into getting married too quickly and I do not want to make that mistake.

There are some good marriages, but practically no delightful ones.

It's not that marriage itself is bad; it's the people we marry who give it a bad name.

Women do generally manage to love the guys they marry more than they manage to marry the guys they love.

Hollywood is the same as any other place when it comes to love, marriage, and divorce ... some people have trouble staying married and some people have trouble staying single.

Love is so blind, it feels right when it's wrong.

People are reluctant to cite boredom as grounds for divorce.

If they only married when they fell in love, most people would die unwed.

I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother.

The right boys I always toss and the wrong ones I keep on top of me like paperweights.

People say children from broken homes have it hard, but the children of charmed marriages have their own particular challenges.

To dance with a man is to concentrate a twelvemonth's regulation fire upon him in the fragment of an hour. To pass to courtship without acquaintance, to pass to marriage without courtship, is a skipping of terms reserved for those alone who tread this royal road.

If this were the fifties, she’d be checking Sam’s collars for lipstick stains. (Did people do that anymore? Why did women kiss collars, anyway? Besides, Sam almost always wore T-shirts.)

She was probably the girl I loved the most of all my girlfriends, but also the toughest one to make things work out with. If I had put that much effort into any of my other relationships, I'd be married with five kids now.

My husband says, 'God, Roseanne, I can't remember the last time we had sex.' Well, I can, and that is why we ain't doing it.

We dated in our early 20s, when we were working at the same newspaper. We broke up, got back together and broke up again. I wanted to get married and have kids, but he wasn't ready. So I married someone else, had my daughters and the marriage ended ... and there was Bill. He'd never gotten married and was finally, finally ready. We discovered that we were still each other's favorite people to talk to.

Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn't learned much.

You don't pick who you fall in love with. There are so few people to love. It's hard for one adult to even like another. Almost impossible.

There are billions of men in the world, probably millions near my age. Maybe hundreds who are compatible with me. Maybe at least a dozen who would want to date me. There's got to be at least five on the continent whom I could probably marry. So why am I so hung up on this one guy?

People don't roll around naked in my books. I do allow them to go to bed if they're married, but it's all very wonderful and the moon beams.