Teachers spend most of their daytime hours with children. Teachers at every level, coaches, counselors, cafeteria workers and yes, custodians, spend their hours trying to make children's lives different, if not always better. — Susan Straight Copy Share Image
The American fantasy of love is the 'meet-cute,' 'Love at first sight,' and 'You had me at hello!' The completely spontaneous version of accidental… — Susan Straight Copy Share
More than half of my former students teach - elementary and high school, community college and university. I taught them to be passionate about… — Susan Straight Copy Share
“The broken spine of the book shows the webbing of binder's string, and my fingers have worn white spots in the cover.” — Susan Straight Copy Share
All my best memories of my brother are in vehicles, speeding, predatory or celebratory. We were just made to drive. For the last 12… — Susan Straight Copy Share
Teachers spend most of their daytime hours with children. Teachers at every level, coaches, counselors, cafeteria workers and yes, custodians, spend their hours trying… — Susan Straight Copy Share
“I have a million nightingales on the branches of my heart singing freedom.” — Susan Straight Copy Share
I have more than 100 legal pads filled with handwriting. Eight novels, two books for children, countless stories and essays. — Susan Straight Copy Share
I never took the bus. Never. Walking meant you were eccentric or pious or a loser - riding the bus meant you were insane… — Susan Straight Copy Share
“The Men hunted money and sex. The women were hunted and captured, even the white women.” — Susan Straight Copy Share
My father, born in Colorado, met my mother, born in Switzerland, when he went into the finance company where she worked and asked for… — Susan Straight Copy Share
My mother and father split up when I was three and my brother was still in the womb. — Susan Straight Copy Share
The two words, in the American lexicon, are never good. Pink slip. The first time I ever heard it when I was young was… — Susan Straight Copy Share
