Mary Monroe > Quotes

“ignorance is like a cow that a lot of people can't stop milkin!”
― Mary Monroe, God Don't Play

“Life is one game where people don't play fair.”
― Mary Monroe, God Don't Play

“stupidity was an equal opportunity condition.”
― Mary Monroe, In Sheep's Clothing

“I knew that if God had created a woman who could keep her man from straying, it probably wasn’t me.”
― Mary Monroe, She Had It Coming

“By the time I get through slicin' him up, he'll have two assholes!”
― Mary Monroe, Lost Daughters

“I'm taking a big risk by coming clean, but the pressure of hiding my true self done really took a toll on me and I can't take too much more.”
― Mary Monroe

“One man got so mean and nasty whenever he couldn't play with Maureen's titties that he soiled himself on purpose so she would have to clean his butt and the rest of his private parts. Each time she had to do that, he displayed an erection that would put a horny frat boy to shame.”
― Mary Monroe, Lost Daughters

“That wench gets around like a chain letter.”
― Mary Monroe, Lost Daughters

“You got a baby boy,” I told him with my jaw twitching. “Oh yeah? Humph! It sure took Jessie long enough to do something right. But that ain’t no reason for her to be making such a racket! Shoot. Women have babies every day.” He snorted and looked from Jessie to the midwife. “Miss Mona Lisa, you do whatever you need to do to get her up on her feet so she can fix me something to eat before I go to bed. I ain’t ate nothing since noon.”
― Mary Monroe, Mrs. Wiggins

“When her first husband cheated on her, she knocked out all of his front teeth and broke his arm in two places before she divorced him.”
― Mary Monroe, Bent But Not Broken

“Let me tell you somethin’, girl. When you get involved with men, you will have to do all kinds of shit to keep them in line. Just like a dog. Men have to be fed, petted, and trained right.”
― Mary Monroe, Mama Ruby

“How I handle bad situations ain’t got nothing to do with me having ‘white folk’ sense. What I got is common sense, and that ain’t got no color,” I insisted.”
― Mary Monroe, Mrs. Wiggins

“After Homer gave me a gentle bath—yes, he bathed me—he helped me into my clothes.”
― Mary Monroe, Bent But Not Broken

“We ended up in America by default, so it’ll never really be our home.”
― Mary Monroe, One House Over

“Ruby had come to the conclusion that sex was the greatest thing that she’d discovered since peanut brittle and beer.”
― Mary Monroe, Mama Ruby

“They were old-fashioned, churchgoing people, and they associated with some of the snootiest, most self-righteous people in town.”
― Mary Monroe, One House Over

“broke into my house in the middle of the night and barged into our bedroom with a gun in her hand, she was the one who ended up dead. Even though I had accidentally shot her during a scuffle, we agreed that the best thing for us to do was to cover it up.”
― Mary Monroe, Love, Honor, Betray

“I’d been taught that too much of a good thing wasn’t good for nobody, even sex. Too much sex was one thing. No sex was something else.”
― Mary Monroe, Love, Honor, Betray

“Joyce ain’t no exception. I suspect she got that job because she always had the right people in her corner and she was easy to train.”
― Mary Monroe, Over the Fence

“I hope him and his pecker is resting in peace.”
― Mary Monroe, Love, Honor, Betray

“My sex life had been on hold for too long, and I intended to get caught up.”
― Mary Monroe, Love, Honor, Betray

“He who guards his lips guards his life, but he who speaks rashly will come to ruin—Proverbs 13:3.”
― Mary Monroe, Lost Daughters

“Stay with Jesus, and He’ll stay with you.”
― Mary Monroe, One House Over

“it happened yesterday. I still couldn’t believe I had actually took somebody’s life, especially since death had caused me so much grief. I’d lost my first wife, Maggie, and our twenty-one-year-old-son, Claude, on the same day a little over a year ago.”
― Mary Monroe, Love, Honor, Betray

“Life is a gift. You need to live.”
― Mary Monroe, Double Lives

“I had spent my whole life catering to everybody else. It was high time for me to cater to myself now.”
― Mary Monroe, Bent But Not Broken

“A real wise old sister, who also happens to be my mama, told me when I was a little girl that it don’t matter if the man is the head of a household. He can be as big a ‘head of household’ as he wants to be, and that’s usually the case most of the time anyway. If the woman is smart and strong, she’s the neck, and without a neck, the head can’t even move,” Ruby told Othella. “I’m smart and I’m strong.”
― Mary Monroe, Mama Ruby

“Like almost every other colored person, I couldn’t tell the difference because we’d been going through a “depression” all our lives.”
― Mary Monroe, One House Over

“I was taking all of my secrets to my grave.”
― Mary Monroe, Love, Honor, Betray

“I can tell when he’s been with her. I can smell her scent on his hide. That’s when I make him give me some pleasure, whether he wants to or not. I straddle him and then I ride his tally whacker so long and hard, he has to soak it in Epsom salt when I’m done with it.”
― Mary Monroe, Lost Daughters