Susan Cheever

Pregnancy is difficult for women but it is even more difficult for men.

— Susan Cheever

Dogs are great teachers. They are at home in the world. They live in the moment, and they force us to stay…

— Susan Cheever

When Tolstoy wrote that all happy families are alike, what he meant was that there are no happy families.

— Susan Cheever

I believe that the memoir is the novel of the 21st century; it’s an amazing form that we haven’t even begun to…

— Susan Cheever

If a woman is surrounded by lovers or if a woman has a lot of guys asking her out, that's considered wonderful.…

— Susan Cheever

There is no such thing as expecting too much.

— Susan Cheever

All writers have strengths and weaknesses. I am terrified of being boring, so I write short, compressed stories that sometimes don't give…

— Susan Cheever

Our [western] culture embraces sex addiction. If I drink too much or rack up credit-card debt or lose the rent in Vegas,…

— Susan Cheever

There were a number of books about Bill Wilson, and by him, but a lot of the basic biographical tasks had not…

— Susan Cheever

There is no other closeness in human life like the closeness between a mother and her baby - chronologically, physically, and spiritually…

— Susan Cheever

The actual American childhood is less Norman Rockwell and Walt Disney than Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe.

— Susan Cheever

Personal experience is the lightning of the soul; it transforms the heart in ways that leave the brain behind.

— Susan Cheever

Love is a great wrecker of peace of mind.

— Susan Cheever

There is some consensus: There's obsession, there's never satiety, and there's always remorse. For me, the big thing is that you're always…

— Susan Cheever

I think 12-step programs really work, rehab really works, certain types of therapies and talking to other addicts really work. There are…

— Susan Cheever

Guilt is petty; I am above guilt.

— Susan Cheever

Whenever there was a crisis, I found a man to help me take the edge off the feelings of helplessness and pain.

— Susan Cheever

“Psychological studies have recently shown that adversity can be a more powerful motivator than support. Successful people often remember being told that…

— Susan Cheever

You mustn’t be so open-minded that your brains fall out.

— Susan Cheever

Addiction isnt about substance - you arent addicted to the substance, you are addicted to the alteration of mood that the substance…

— Susan Cheever

When women are angry at men, they call them heartless. When men are angry at women, they call them crazy. Sometimes it…

— Susan Cheever

The program of A.A., as written by Bill Wilson and Dr. Smith, only has one purpose: to get you sober. That's it.…

— Susan Cheever

Falling in love as we know it is an addictive experience.

— Susan Cheever

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…

— Susan Cheever

Writers often write their best when they are feeling their worst

— Susan Cheever