I would say that I write out of frustration. If I were a witch, I would twitch my nose and fix it all and make things easier for all of us. That's wh… - Terry McMillan

…A lot of women write about messy, complex and complicated things. Our lives and experiences as women are complicated, and very dense, and on some levels, I think more multidimensional, because we have a whole lot more to deal with. Men don’t have periods. They don’t have babies, and nowadays they don’t have to worry about just taking care of a family. We women do all of that. And so, I find on some levels, our lives are a little bit more interesting…

Life is a lot of stops and starts, but when you get in your 50s, you see there is a finish line, and I want to go out sliding into home.

I'm not trying to be Toni Morrison or Katherine Anne Porter or Virginia Woolf. I'm not trying to do anything except tell stories.