“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.” — Susie Bright Copy Share Image
"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… — Susie Bright Copy Share
I'm a Mommy's Girl - the strongest influence in my young life was my mom. — Susie Bright Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share
You have to calendar time for yourself even if you have no idea what you're going to do with it. — Susie Bright Copy Share Image
“I'm as vulnerable as anybody to the toxicity of the American nuclear family. But I wouldn't call it disease or moral failure as much… — Susie Bright Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
