Susan Cheever
Susan Cheever
Susan Cheever, an American author, is a prize-winning best-selling writer well known for her memoir, her writing about alcoholism, and her intimate understanding of American history...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth31 July 1943
CountryUnited States of America
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There is no such thing as expecting too much.
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Women's currency is their looks. Like it or not, the most powerful woman is an 18-year-old woman.
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Addiction isn't about substance - you aren't addicted to the substance, you are addicted to the alteration of mood that the substance brings.
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The program of A.A., as written by Bill Wilson and Dr. Smith, only has one purpose: to get you sober. That's it. To make you a better person, forget it. That was one of the things he came to understand in those years of trial and error. It has to be about only one thing.
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Womens currency is their looks. Like it or not, the most powerful woman is an 18-year-old woman.
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There were a number of books about Bill Wilson, and by him, but a lot of the basic biographical tasks had not been done.
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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.
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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.
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The actual American childhood is less Norman Rockwell and Walt Disney than Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe.
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A fierce literary woman with a penchant for married men, Margaret Fuller was ultimately torn between motherhood and her final career as a political reporter.
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Love is a great wrecker of peace of mind.
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Personal experience is the lightning of the soul; it transforms the heart in ways that leave the brain behind.
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Falling in love as we know it is an addictive experience.
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Death is terrifying because it is so ordinary. It happens all the time.