Tracy McMillan > Quotes

“Everything works out in the end. if it hasn't worked out yet, then it's not the end.”
― Tracy McMillan, I Love You And I'm Leaving You Anyway

“The good news is that I believe every woman who wants to can find a great partner. You're just going to need to get rid of the idea that marriage will make you happy. It won't. Once the initial high wears off, you'll just be you, except with twice as much laundry.

Because ultimately, marriage is not about getting something -- it's about giving it. Strangely, men understand this more than we do. Probably because for them marriage involves sacrificing their most treasured possession -- a free-agent penis -- and for us, it's the culmination of a princess fantasy so universal, it built Disneyland.”
― Tracy McMillan

“Everything works out in the end. If it hasn't worked out yet, it's not the end. Unknown”
― Tracy McMillan, I Love You And I'm Leaving You Anyway

“Being a dick is when you're so self-centered, you think your ideas are pretty much the only worthy ones, and you secretly believe other people are inferior to you. [...] You'd rather believe other people just can't handle how awesome you are. And you're right. All that awesomeness sucks, actually.”
― Tracy McMillan

“All of us, consciously or unconsciously, set out to have the best possible love life. Valentine's Day simply shines a light on the degree to which that didn't - or hasn't yet - materialized.”
― Tracy McMillan

“Here's the thing: you're not really ready for love until you have enough self-respect that if you met your exact self, but in a guy, you would totally, completely, absolutely want to be with him.”
― Tracy McMillan

“Every encounter ids there to know who we are-nothing is wasted.”
― Tracy McMillan

“Caring —about people, about things, about life— is an act of maturity.”
― Tracy McMillan

“Loving myself exactly where I am is the only way to get where I'm going.”
― Tracy McMillan

“Here's the thing, you're not really ready for love until you have enough self-respect that if you met your exact self, but in a guy, you would totally, completely, absolutely want to be with him.”
― Tracy McMillan

“I’m also the mother of a teenage boy. I’ve said in the past, and I’ll say it again, that fourteen-year-old boys are like the single-cell protozoan version of a husband. I often want to invite my single girlfriends over to my house for a day so they can get a clear picture of what they’re really dealing with when it comes to men. It’s not that all men are immature. It’s that all men have a part inside them that matches the part inside me that never really left ninth grade. And in order to love them (and love myself), I’m going to need to get realistic about that part.”
― Tracy McMillan, Why You're Not Married . . . Yet: The Straight Talk You Need to Get the Relationship You Deserve

“The bottom line is that marriage is just a long-term opportunity to practice loving someone even when you feel they don’t necessarily deserve it. And loving is always spiritual in nature—because people are flawed and it’s hard to love flaws.”
― Tracy McMillan, Why You're Not Married . . . Yet: The Straight Talk You Need to Get the Relationship You Deserve