Susie Bright famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood.
-- Susie Bright

#Inspirational #Motivational #Children
I'm a Mommy's Girl - the strongest influence in my young life was my mom.
-- Susie Bright

#Girl #Mom #Mother
Natural" is a very dangerous word to use about sexuality ... Our society's notions of normality are completely fake and meta-trendy, since they rely on the changing standards of superstition, religion, Christianity and gender bias to define themselves. Americans, in particular, exhibit very childish reactions to sexual practices that are new to them, much like little kids who are offered a vegetable they haven't seen before: "That's disgusting!" "But darling, you haven't even tried it!" "I don't care, I hate it, I hate it!
-- Susie Bright

#Hate #Kids #Vegetables
You have to calendar time for yourself even if you have no idea what youre going to do with it.
-- Susie Bright

#Ideas #Calendars
I'm like the kid in kindergarten; I really do send valentines to everyone.
-- Susie Bright

#Romantic #Valentines Day #Kids
Familiarity with your lover is what initially makes sex really good
-- Susie Bright

#Sex #Lovers #Familiarity
Doing the right thing for someone else was like a tonic for me; it was like some magic ointment that made a wound disappear
-- Susie Bright

#Magic #Disappear #Made
I got introduced to audiobooks because of having a baby
-- Susie Bright

#Baby #Having A Baby
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
-- Susie Bright

#Book #Thinking #Hard Times
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.
-- Susie Bright

#Book #Reading #People
In fact, I think for a lot of writers, it's so hard to be read.
-- Susie Bright

#Reading #Book #Thinking
It's not that sexual liberation or feminist messages are dead.
-- Susie Bright

#Feminist #Messages #Liberation
Now I have to have the biggest P.O. box in the entire post office to get all the manuscripts coming in.
-- Susie Bright

#Office #Boxes #Post Office
People who love science fiction really do love sex.
-- Susie Bright

#Sex #People #Fiction
I got more and more politically active and just followed the course of feminism and sexual liberation
-- Susie Bright

#Feminism #Liberation #Active
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!
-- Susie Bright

#Sex #Looks #Way
There IS more criticism of puritanism, and more distance from Christian morality, than there has been before.
-- Susie Bright

#Christian #Distance #Criticism
My idea of the ideal sex education site doesn't exist.
-- Susie Bright

#Sex #Ideas #Site
I love turning my daughter on to old movies.
-- Susie Bright

#Mother #Daughter #My Daughter
Everyone wants to be a ***** now; everyone craves our freedom, guts, and knowing looks.
-- Susie Bright

#Knowing #Want #Dykes
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.
-- Susie Bright

#Majority #Like You #Gender
Behind every erotic condemnation there's a burning hypocrite.
-- Susie Bright

#Hypocrite #Burning #Condemnation
Keeping people neurotic and depressed and ignorant and self-doubting is oppressive.
-- Susie Bright

#Self #People #Ignorant
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.
-- Susie Bright

#Blood #Vampire #Stories
I think moms need to share information on a regular, intimate basis.
-- Susie Bright

#Mom #Thinking #Information
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.
-- Susie Bright

#Girl #Successful #Thinking
Human beings like variety, and they also like partnership... these are scientific values we can point to.
-- Susie Bright

#Partnership #Humans #Variety

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