Susan Cheever famous quotes

03-28-2025

You mustnâ€™t be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Susan Cheever

#Fall #Brain #Open Minded
Addiction isnt about substance - you arent addicted to the substance, you are addicted to the alteration of mood that the substance brings.
-- Susan Cheever

#Addiction #Substance #Mood
There is no such thing as expecting too much.
-- Susan Cheever

#Optimistic #Too Much #Expecting
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

#Teacher #Dog #Home
Pregnancy is difficult for women but it is even more difficult for men.
-- Susan Cheever

#Pregnancy #Men #Difficult
Guilt is petty; I am above guilt.
-- Susan Cheever

#Guilt
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

#Silly #Cake #White
Whenever there was a crisis, I found a man to help me take the edge off the feelings of helplessness and pain.
-- Susan Cheever

#Pain #Men #Feelings
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

#Book #Numbers #Bills
Womens currency is their looks. Like it or not, the most powerful woman is an 18-year-old woman.
-- Susan Cheever

#Powerful #Years #Looks
The actual American childhood is less Norman Rockwell and Walt Disney than Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe.
-- Susan Cheever

#Childhood #Hawthorne #Allan Poe
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

#Mother #Baby #Heartbeat
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 Cheever

#Mother #Husband #Children
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

#Taken #Mind #Quality
Writers often write their best when they are feeling their worst
-- Susan Cheever

#Writing #Feelings #Worst
Death is terrifying because it is so ordinary. It happens all the time.
-- Susan Cheever

#Ordinary
Falling in love as we know it is an addictive experience.
-- Susan Cheever

#Falling In Love #Fall
I believe that the memoir is the novel of the 21st century; itâ€™s an amazing form that we havenâ€™t even begun to tapâ€¦weâ€™re just getting started figuring out what the rules are.
-- Susan Cheever

#Believe #Form #Century
Personal experience is the lightning of the soul; it transforms the heart in ways that leave the brain behind.
-- Susan Cheever

#Heart #Soul #Brain
Love is a great wrecker of peace of mind.
-- Susan Cheever

#Inspirational #Love Is #Mind
When Tolstoy wrote that all happy families are alike, what he meant was that there are no happy families.
-- Susan Cheever

#Happy Family
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

#Motherhood #Men #Careers

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