Susan Cheever Quotes

• There is no other closeness in human life like the closeness between a mother and her baby - chronologically, physically, and spiritually they are just a few heartbeats away from being the same person.

  Susan Cheever

  Mother, Baby, Heartbeat

  Susan Cheever (1995). “A Woman's Life: The Story of an Ordinary American and Her Extraordinary Generation”, Quill

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• No debes ser tan abierto de mente que se te caiga el cerebro.

  Susan Cheever

  Otoño, Cerebro, Mente Abierta

  Susan Cheever (2014). “E. E. Cummings: A Life”, p.11, Vintage

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• Womens currency is their looks. Like it or not, the most powerful woman is an 18-year-old woman.

  Susan Cheever

  Powerful, Years, Looks

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

  Susan Cheever

  Addiction, Substance, Mood

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• La experiencia personal es el relámpago del alma; transforma el corazón de un modo que deja atrás al cerebro.

  Susan Cheever

  Corazón, alma, cerebro

  Susan Cheever (2007). “American Bloomsbury: Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau: Their Lives, Their Loves, Their Work”, p.133, Simon and Schuster

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• Creo que los programas de 12 pasos funcionan de verdad, la rehabilitación funciona de verdad, ciertos tipos de terapias y hablar con otros adictos funcionan de verdad. Hay muchas cosas que funcionan, ese no es el problema. El problema es conseguir que los adictos digan que son adictos. El problema es admitirlo.

  Susan Cheever

  Pensar, hablar, rehabilitar

  Fuente: www.marieclaire.com

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• Writers often write their best when they are feeling their worst

  Susan Cheever

  Writing, Feelings, Worst

  Susan Cheever (2011). “Louisa May Alcott: A Personal Biography”, p.181, Simon and Schuster

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• Si una mujer está rodeada de amantes o si una mujer tiene muchos chicos que le piden salir, eso se considera maravilloso. Como mujer que se ha acostado con muchos hombres, siempre me han felicitado por mi capacidad para atraer a los hombres.

  Susan Cheever

  Men, Guy, Asking

  Fuente: www.marieclaire.com

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• There is no such thing as expecting too much.

  Susan Cheever

  Optimistic, Too Much, Expecting

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• Death is terrifying because it is so ordinary. It happens all the time.

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  Death, Ordinary, Happens

  Susan Cheever (2015). “Home Before Dark”, p.233, Simon and Schuster

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• Dogs are great teachers. They are at home in the world. They live in the moment, and they force us to stay there with them. Dogs love us unconditionally, not for our bodies or bank accounts.

  Susan Cheever

  Dog, Teacher, Home

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• Love is a great wrecker of peace of mind.

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  Inspirational, Love Is, Mind

  Susan Cheever (2001). “As Good As I Could Be: A Memoir About Raising Wonderful Children in an Imperfect World”, p.176, Simon and Schuster

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• Todos los escritores tienen puntos fuertes y débiles. A mí me aterra ser aburrido, así que escribo historias cortas y comprimidas que a veces no dan tiempo al lector a pensar en lo que ha leído. Me cuesta ir más despacio.

  Susan Cheever

  Lucha, Escritura, Pensamiento

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• Guilt is petty; I am above guilt.

  Susan Cheever

  Guilt, Petty

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• 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 getting started figuring out what the rules are.

  Susan Cheever

  Believe, Century, Form

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• Realmente no pienso en la escritura como una carrera. Es algo que me sucedió. Trabajando más duro de lo que sabía que era posible trabajar, he llegado a ser pasable en ello.

  Susan Cheever

  Escribir, pensar

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• 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 as if the obsessed one has been taken over by a replica, a pod, a facsimile of the rational person.

  Susan Cheever

  Taken, Mind, Quality

  Susan Cheever (2009). “Desire: Where Sex Meets Addiction”, p.56, Simon and Schuster

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

  Susan Cheever

  Falling In Love, Fall, Knows

  Susan Cheever (2009). “Desire: Where Sex Meets Addiction”, p.43, Simon and Schuster

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

  Susan Cheever

  Pregnancy, Men, Difficult

  Susan Cheever (1995). “A Woman's Life: The Story of an Ordinary American and Her Extraordinary Generation”, Quill

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

  Susan Cheever

  Pain, Men, Feelings

  Susan Cheever (2009). “Desire: Where Sex Meets Addiction”, p.128, Simon and Schuster

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

  Susan Cheever

  Familia feliz

  Treetops pt. 2, ch. 11 (1991)

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

  Susan Cheever

  Childhood, Hawthorne, Allan Poe

  Susan Cheever (1995). “A Woman's Life: The Story of an Ordinary American and Her Extraordinary Generation”, Quill

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• Nuestra cultura [occidental] abraza la adicción al sexo. Si bebo demasiado o acumulo deudas de tarjetas de crédito o pierdo el alquiler en Las Vegas, eso es malo. Pero si tengo muchos amantes, eso es bueno.

  Susan Cheever

  Sexo, Las Vegas, Adicción

  Fuente: www.marieclaire.com

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• Una boda no es para los novios, es para la familia y los amigos. Los novios no son más que atrezzo, tontas figuras de palo sin más significado que las figuras de caramelo rosas y blancas de la parte superior de la tarta.

  Susan Cheever

  Silly, Cake, White

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• The birth of a child is in many ways the end of a marriage - marriage including a child has to be reinvented, and reinvented at a time when both husband and wife are under unprecedented stress and the wife is exhausted, physically drained, and emotionally in shock. A man's conflict between wanting his child to have a mother and wanting to have the mother to himself is potentially intolerable.

  Susan Cheever

  Madre, Hijos, Marido

  Susan Cheever (1995). “A Woman's Life: The Story of an Ordinary American and Her Extraordinary Generation”, Quill

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