“Get Out Of Your Own Way”: 10 Famous Women On Finding Love (And A Husband) After 40
Shirley Strawberry
Author and radio personality Shirley Strawberry (Strawberry Letter anyone?) tied the knot in 2015 to Ernesto Williams after she decided to stop sitting at home waiting for a man to do all of the work.
“I wanted a relationship, but I wasn’t putting any effort into it and made no room in my life for a man,” she told Essence. “I had faith that God was going to send me a man, but what was I doing? You can’t go home every weekend and just sit there. You have to put yourself in the game. Faith without works is dead.”