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 Copy Share Image
Pregnancy is difficult for women but it is even more difficult for men. — Susan Cheever Copy Share Image
Dogs are great teachers. They are at home in the world. They live in the moment, and they force us to stay there with… — Susan Cheever Copy Share Image
When Tolstoy wrote that all happy families are alike, what he meant was that there are no happy families. — Susan Cheever Copy Share Image
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… — Susan Cheever Copy Share Image
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… — Susan Cheever Copy Share Image
All writers have strengths and weaknesses. I am terrified of being boring, so I write short, compressed stories that sometimes don't give a reader… — Susan Cheever Copy Share Image
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.… — Susan Cheever Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There is no other closeness in human life like the closeness between a mother and her baby - chronologically, physically, and spiritually they are… — Susan Cheever Copy Share Image
The actual American childhood is less Norman Rockwell and Walt Disney than Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe. — Susan Cheever Copy Share Image
Personal experience is the lightning of the soul; it transforms the heart in ways that leave the brain behind. — Susan Cheever Copy Share Image
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