Susan Cheever quotes
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“You mustn’t be so open-minded that your brains fall out.”
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“Addiction isnt about substance - you arent addicted to the substance, you are addicted to the alteration of mood that the substance brings.”
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“There is no such thing as expecting too much.”
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“Dogs are great teachers. They are at home in the world. They live in the moment, and they force us to stay there with them. Dogs love us unconditionally, not for our bodies or bank accounts.”
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“Pregnancy is difficult for women but it is even more difficult for men.”
-- Susan CheeverSource : Susan Cheever (1995). “A Woman's Life: The Story of an Ordinary American and Her Extraordinary Generation”, Quill
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“A wedding isn't for the bride and groom, it's for the family and friends. The B. and G. are just props, silly stick figures with no more significance than the pink and white candy figures on the top of the cake.”
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“Whenever there was a crisis, I found a man to help me take the edge off the feelings of helplessness and pain.”
-- Susan CheeverSource : Susan Cheever (2009). “Desire: Where Sex Meets Addiction”, p.128, Simon and Schuster
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“There were a number of books about Bill Wilson, and by him, but a lot of the basic biographical tasks had not been done.”
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“Womens currency is their looks. Like it or not, the most powerful woman is an 18-year-old woman.”
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“The actual American childhood is less Norman Rockwell and Walt Disney than Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe.”
-- Susan CheeverSource : Susan Cheever (1995). “A Woman's Life: The Story of an Ordinary American and Her Extraordinary Generation”, Quill
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“There is no other closeness in human life like the closeness between a mother and her baby - chronologically, physically, and spiritually they are just a few heartbeats away from being the same person.”
-- Susan CheeverSource : Susan Cheever (1995). “A Woman's Life: The Story of an Ordinary American and Her Extraordinary Generation”, Quill
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“The birth of a child is in many ways the end of a marriage - marriage including a child has to be reinvented, and reinvented at a time when both husband and wife are under unprecedented stress and the wife is exhausted, physically drained, and emotionally in shock. A man's conflict between wanting his child to have a mother and wanting to have the mother to himself is potentially intolerable.”
-- Susan CheeverSource : Susan Cheever (1995). “A Woman's Life: The Story of an Ordinary American and Her Extraordinary Generation”, Quill
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“Obsession is so extreme and so hard to imagine with the rational mind that it has a science-fiction-like quality to it-it's almost as if the obsessed one has been taken over by a replica, a pod, a facsimile of the rational person.”
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“Writers often write their best when they are feeling their worst”
-- Susan CheeverSource : Susan Cheever (2011). “Louisa May Alcott: A Personal Biography”, p.181, Simon and Schuster
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“Death is terrifying because it is so ordinary. It happens all the time.”
-- Susan CheeverSource : Susan Cheever (2015). “Home Before Dark”, p.233, Simon and Schuster
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“Falling in love as we know it is an addictive experience.”
-- Susan CheeverSource : Susan Cheever (2009). “Desire: Where Sex Meets Addiction”, p.43, Simon and Schuster
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“I believe that the memoir is the novel of the 21st century; it’s an amazing form that we haven’t even begun to tap…we’re just getting started figuring out what the rules are.”
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“Personal experience is the lightning of the soul; it transforms the heart in ways that leave the brain behind.”
-- Susan CheeverSource : Susan Cheever (2007). “American Bloomsbury: Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau: Their Lives, Their Loves, Their Work”, p.133, Simon and Schuster
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“Love is a great wrecker of peace of mind.”
-- Susan CheeverSource : Susan Cheever (2001). “As Good As I Could Be: A Memoir About Raising Wonderful Children in an Imperfect World”, p.176, Simon and Schuster
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“When Tolstoy wrote that all happy families are alike, what he meant was that there are no happy families.”
-- Susan CheeverSource : Treetops pt. 2, ch. 11 (1991)
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“A fierce literary woman with a penchant for married men, Margaret Fuller was ultimately torn between motherhood and her final career as a political reporter.”
-- Susan Cheever
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