Top 42 Susan Cheever Quotes
#1. Falling in love as we know it is an addictive experience.
Susan Cheever
#3. Pregnancy is difficult for women but it is even more difficult for men.
Susan Cheever
#4. The actual American childhood is less Norman Rockwell and Walt Disney than Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe.
Susan Cheever
#5. The Pilgrims believed beer was an unalloyed good, a 'good creature of God.' People who did not drink were suspect and 'crank-brained.
Susan Cheever
#6. 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
#7. We're all just marionettes, Ashline," Eve said softly. "Dangling, dancing, waiting. You can pretend like you pull your own strings, but in the end your only hope is that you've landed in the hands of someone who knows what the hell they're doing.
Karsten Knight
#8. Whenever there was a crisis, I found a man to help me take the edge off the feelings of helplessness and pain.
Susan Cheever
#9. There were a number of books about Bill Wilson, and by him, but a lot of the basic biographical tasks had not been done.
Susan Cheever
#10. Glass really rewards risk. A lot of times with glass, you're just waiting for the piece to cool down or for some temperature to adjust, and there's split seconds where you've got a fraction of a second where you get to make a move a particular way, and you don't get to repeat it if you do it wrong.
Jim McKelvey
#11. The war in Iraq is a rare opportunity to move toward an historic period of cooperation. Out of these troubled times a new world order can emerge.
George W. Bush
#12. Attention and respect give pleasure, however late, or however useless. But they are not useless, when they are late, it is reasonable to rejoice, as the day declines, to find that it has been spent with the approbation of mankind.
Samuel Johnson
#13. No matter your position, circumstances, or opportunities in life, you always have the freedom of mind to choose how you experience, interpret, and, ultimately, shape your world.
Brendon Burchard
#14. Our [western] culture embraces sex addiction. If I drink too much or rack up credit-card debt or lose the rent in Vegas, that's bad. But if I have many lovers, that's good.
Susan Cheever
#15. My goal is to connect the young teachers to the old, to reignite their sense of struggle.
Jonathan Kozol
#16. 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.
Susan Cheever
#18. If a woman is surrounded by lovers or if a woman has a lot of guys asking her out, that's considered wonderful. As a woman who's slept with a lot of men, I've always been complimented on my ability to attract men.
Susan Cheever
#19. 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.
Susan Cheever
#20. There is some consensus: There's obsession, there's never satiety, and there's always remorse. For me, the big thing is that you're always breaking a promise - for example, you promise yourself you're just going to have coffee with a man, then before you know it, you're in bed together.
Susan Cheever
#21. 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.
Susan Cheever
#22. Writers often write their best when they are feeling their worst
Susan Cheever
#23. If you can fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run- Yours is the Earth and everything in it ...
Rudyard Kipling
#24. Personal experience is the lightning of the soul; it transforms the heart in ways that leave the brain behind.
Susan Cheever
#25. The Pilgrims landed the Mayflower at Cape Cod, Massachusetts, on a cold November day in 1620 because they were running out of beer.
Susan Cheever
#26. But then there's loneliness. However you might philosophise about it, loneliness is a terrible thing, my dear fellow ... Although in reality, of course, it's absolutely of no importance!
Anton Chekhov
#27. Repertory theater is all about being part of the whole, one of the many colors in this vast palette.
Tom Hanks
#28. The program of A.A., as written by Bill Wilson and Dr. Smith, only has one purpose: to get you sober. That's it. To make you a better person, forget it. That was one of the things he came to understand in those years of trial and error. It has to be about only one thing.
Susan Cheever
#29. 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 Cheever
#30. Addiction isn't about substance - you aren't addicted to the substance, you are addicted to the alteration of mood that the substance brings.
Susan Cheever
#33. When women are angry at men, they call them heartless. When men are angry at women, they call them crazy. Sometimes it doesn't stop there.
Susan Cheever
#34. When Tolstoy wrote that all happy families are alike, what he meant was that there are no happy families.
Susan Cheever
#35. The CDC reported that 88,000 adults a year die of alcohol consumption.
Susan Cheever
#37. I think it's nice to know that people in the industry are paying attention to all of the hard work you've done throughout the years and rewarding you for it. It reminds you to keep doing it, to keep pushing yourself, and to always remain that way.
Joan Smalls
#39. Death is terrifying because it is so ordinary. It happens all the time.
Susan Cheever
#40. 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.
Susan Cheever
#41. I think 12-step programs really work, rehab really works, certain types of therapies and talking to other addicts really work. There are a lot of things that work - that isn't the problem. The problem is getting the addicts to say they're addicts. The problem is admitting it.
Susan Cheever
#42. Women's currency is their looks. Like it or not, the most powerful woman is an 18-year-old woman.
Susan Cheever
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