American Quote by Norah Vincent

“Well, I believe in the soul, the cock, the pussy, the small of a woman's back, the hangin' curveball, high fiber, good scotch, that…

— Ron Shelton

You don't sit there at twenty-five, unpublished, inexperienced, and respond to Susan Sontag's editorial suggestions like a little snot, rejecting every one of them.…

— Sigrid Nunez

Cancer's life is a recapitulation of the body's life, its existence a pathological mirror of our own. Susan Sontag warned against overburdening an illness…

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

There's a reason why trainspotters are not girls, there's a reason why there's the myth of the slightly autistic male genius, there's a reason…

— Claire Messud

I first met Susan Sontag in spring 1976 when she was recovering from cancer surgery and needed someone to help type her correspondence. I…

— Sigrid Nunez

“Studs Terkel was waiting for a number 146 bus alongside two well-groomed business types. "This was before the term yuppie was used," he explains.…

— Gary Younge

“During the Bosnian war in the late 1990s, I spent several days traveling around the country with Susan Sontag and her son, my dear…

— Christopher Hitchens

Simultaneously, my two biggest heroes are Susan Sontag and Morticia Addams from 'The Addams Family.'

— Caitlin Moran

Flyaway, problem hair is the enemy of feminism, and was probably invented by the Man to crush Susan Sontag.

— Caitlin Moran

Going to bed with Gertrude Stein, Jeane Kirkpatrick, Susan Sontag, or Margaret Thatcher: There are some things one prefers neither to do nor to…

— Edward Abbey

Healthy" and "diseased," as Susan Sontag points out...are often subjective judgments that society makes for its own purposes. Women have long been defined as…

— Naomi Wolf

I was friends with Susan Sontag the last four years of her life. She had this amazing charisma and so much energy, but she…

— Marina Abramovic