Susie Bright Quotes

#1. There was one rumor that "Susie Bright" and sex theorist "Pat Califia" were one and the same, and that this individual was not actually a woman at all but a pimp hired by an entity composed of the Mitchell Brothers and a Japanese porn syndicate, which was selling women as sex slaves overseas.

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#2. I'm like the kid in kindergarten; I really do send valentines to everyone.

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#3. Radical feminists didn't need FBI infiltration - the mechanism for sisterly cannibalization was already well under way.

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#4. I'm writing a new book right now that is like an erotica manifesto.

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#5. People who love science fiction really do love sex.

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#6. Human beings like variety, and they also like partnership ... these are scientific values we can point to.

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#7. I think moms need to share information on a regular, intimate basis.

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#8. Familiarity with your lover is what initially makes sex really good.

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#9. I'm a Mommy's Girl - the strongest influence in my young life was my mom.

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#10. Photographs have always been the tar baby of censors and obscenity laws. Literature can certainly (if it's any good) conjure up the most pornographic imagination. But photographs dare to be real. No matter how contrived or constructed they are, there's that damn body staring you in the face.

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#11. I wanted to be Emma Goldman. I wanted to digest Doris Lessing's Golden Notebooks like biscuits. I felt like Harriet the Spy, looking for a dumbwaiter to hide in, scribbling down all I witnessed.

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#12. Everyone wants to be a dyke now; everyone craves our freedom, guts, and knowing looks.

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#13. It's not that sexual liberation or feminist messages are dead.

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#14. You have to calendar time for yourself even if you have no idea what you're going to do with it.

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#15. There are also just as many, if not more, women who are anxious to hold down the status quo.

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#16. I could not take one more minute of trying to convince the people of Los Angeles that a workers' revolution and a complete overhaul of society was a tiny bit more exciting than getting a bit role in a Burger King commercial

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#17. I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood.

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#18. In fact, I think for a lot of writers, it's so hard to be read.

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#19. I had a hard time publishing my books in the beginning of my career, because editors were afraid what people would think of THEM, personally, if their name was associated with me.

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#20. Keeping people neurotic and depressed and ignorant and self-doubting is oppressive.

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#21. ... The shocking thing about any stripper gathering, I discovered, was that you have never heard women talk so fast and so explicitly about money in all your life. They make the guys on the trading floor on Wall Street look like a bunch of pansies.

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#22. Many Americans who are not fastened at the temples to a Christian prayer book are offended by politicians who justify their decisions by piously quoting the Old Testament.

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#23. I love turning my daughter on to old movies.

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#24. I see the effects of sexual and gender liberation all around me, just like you do, but I don't have a sense of being in the majority.

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#25. There is more criticism of puritanism, and more distance from Christian morality, than there has been before.

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#26. Now I have to have the biggest P.O. box in the entire post office to get all the manuscripts coming in.

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#27. When AIDS was at its most brutal, frightening, my-God-what-are-we-going-to-do era, that was when vampire stories and stories about blood and trust swept the literary world.

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#28. Finding people who get enormous pleasure from reading books is a more and more unusual experience, and so writers just so much want to be heard.

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#29. So that would be a classic mixed message to young women: you should look a certain way that's going to destroy your reproductive system and your sexual appetite, but at the same time, you should be interested in sex!

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#30. I got introduced to audiobooks because of having a baby.

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#31. Americans had to tie every radical aspiration into a puritanical knot.

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#32. My idea of the ideal sex education site doesn't exist.

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#33. I think that you have to do everything you can do to empower girls when they are young, from their education, to their successful independence, to their sexual self-knowledge.

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#34. You name the demonstration; I was at it.

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#35. I got more and more politically active and just followed the course of feminism and sexual liberation.

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#36. Behind every erotic condemnation there's a burning hypocrite.

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