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Top 25 Susan Cheever Quotes (2025 Update)

Susan Cheever Quote: “Pregnancy is difficult for women but it is even more difficult for men.”

1. “Pregnancy is difficult for women but it is even more difficult for men.”

— Susan Cheever

Susan Cheever Quote: “Addiction isnt about substance – you arent addicted to the substance, you are addicted to the alteration of mood that the substance brings.”

2. “Addiction isnt about substance – you arent addicted to the substance, you are addicted to the alteration of mood that the substance brings.”

— Susan Cheever

Susan Cheever Quote: “When Tolstoy wrote that all happy families are alike, what he meant was that there are no happy families.”

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

— Susan Cheever

Susan Cheever Quote: “There is no such thing as expecting too much.”

4. “There is no such thing as expecting too much.”

— Susan Cheever

Susan Cheever Quote: “Love is a great wrecker of peace of mind.”

5. “Love is a great wrecker of peace of mind.”

— Susan Cheever

Susan Cheever Quote: “Personal experience is the lightning of the soul; it transforms the heart in ways that leave the brain behind.”

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

— Susan Cheever

Susan Cheever Quote: “You mustn’t be so open-minded that your brains fall out.”

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

— Susan Cheever

Susan Cheever Quote: “Falling in love as we know it is an addictive experience.”

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

— Susan Cheever

Susan Cheever Quote: “Death is terrifying because it is so ordinary. It happens all the time.”

9. “Death is terrifying because it is so ordinary. It happens all the time.”

— Susan Cheever

Susan Cheever Quote: “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.”

10. “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

Susan Cheever Quote: “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.”

11. “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

Susan Cheever Quote: “A wedding isn’t for the bride and groom, it’s for the family and friends. The B. and G. are just props, silly stick figures with no more significance than the pink and white candy figures on the top of the cake.”

12. “A wedding isn’t for the bride and groom, it’s for the family and friends. The B. and G. are just props, silly stick figures with no more significance than the pink and white candy figures on the top of the cake.”

— Susan Cheever

Susan Cheever Quote: “The Pilgrims landed the Mayflower at Cape Cod, Massachusetts, on a cold November day in 1620 because they were running out of beer.”

13. “The Pilgrims landed the Mayflower at Cape Cod, Massachusetts, on a cold November day in 1620 because they were running out of beer.”

— Susan Cheever

Susan Cheever Quote: “If a woman is surrounded by lovers or if a woman has a lot of guys asking her out, that’s considered wonderful. As a woman who’s slept with a lot of men, I’ve always been complimented on my ability to attract men.”

14. “If a woman is surrounded by lovers or if a woman has a lot of guys asking her out, that’s considered wonderful. As a woman who’s slept with a lot of men, I’ve always been complimented on my ability to attract men.”

— Susan Cheever

Susan Cheever Quote: “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.”

15. “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

Susan Cheever Quote: “Writers often write their best when they are feeling their worst.”

16. “Writers often write their best when they are feeling their worst.”

— Susan Cheever

Susan Cheever Quote: “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.”

17. “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.”

— Susan Cheever

Susan Cheever Quote: “Womens currency is their looks. Like it or not, the most powerful woman is an 18-year-old woman.”

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

— Susan Cheever

Susan Cheever Quote: “I think 12-step programs really work, rehab really works, certain types of therapies and talking to other addicts really work. There are a lot of things that work – that isn’t the problem. The problem is getting the addicts to say they’re addicts. The problem is admitting it.”

19. “I think 12-step programs really work, rehab really works, certain types of therapies and talking to other addicts really work. There are a lot of things that work – that isn’t the problem. The problem is getting the addicts to say they’re addicts. The problem is admitting it.”

— Susan Cheever

Susan Cheever Quote: “The actual American childhood is less Norman Rockwell and Walt Disney than Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe.”

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

— Susan Cheever

Susan Cheever Quote: “Whenever there was a crisis, I found a man to help me take the edge off the feelings of helplessness and pain.”

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

— Susan Cheever

Susan Cheever Quote: “Psychological studies have recently shown that adversity can be a more powerful motivator than support. Successful people often remember being told that they could not do what they have, in fact, done brilliantly. Stubbornness drove them. Their parents or teachers have told them they will never make any money, or that they will never get a college degree, or that they will never marry and have children. The urge to prove authority wrong has often spurred human beings to unusual success.”

22. “Psychological studies have recently shown that adversity can be a more powerful motivator than support. Successful people often remember being told that they could not do what they have, in fact, done brilliantly. Stubbornness drove them. Their parents or teachers have told them they will never make any money, or that they will never get a college degree, or that they will never marry and have children. The urge to prove authority wrong has often spurred human beings to unusual success.”

— Susan Cheever

Susan Cheever Quote: “Guilt is petty; I am above guilt.”

23. “Guilt is petty; I am above guilt.”

— Susan Cheever

Susan Cheever Quote: “There wasn’t much good to say about the voyage. Five weeks in, with no land in sight, the scanty provisions began to run out. This was a concern for passengers, and also for sailors who were traditionally promised a gallon of beer a day as part of their sailing wages. They could do without food; they could not do without drink.”

24. “There wasn’t much good to say about the voyage. Five weeks in, with no land in sight, the scanty provisions began to run out. This was a concern for passengers, and also for sailors who were traditionally promised a gallon of beer a day as part of their sailing wages. They could do without food; they could not do without drink.”

— Susan Cheever

Susan Cheever Quote: “There were a number of books about Bill Wilson, and by him, but a lot of the basic biographical tasks had not been done.”

25. “There were a number of books about Bill Wilson, and by him, but a lot of the basic biographical tasks had not been done.”

— Susan Cheever

Susan Cheever Quote: “On the voyage from England, beer was their everything. Beer was their fruit and their vegetables in a diet that otherwise consisted of bread, cheese, and meat. Beer was their yogurt with its healing enzymes, and beer was their medicinal spirit. Beer was their water, and beer was their, well, beer.”

26. “On the voyage from England, beer was their everything. Beer was their fruit and their vegetables in a diet that otherwise consisted of bread, cheese, and meat. Beer was their yogurt with its healing enzymes, and beer was their medicinal spirit. Beer was their water, and beer was their, well, beer.”

— Susan Cheever

Susan Cheever Quote: “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 breaking a promise – for example, you promise yourself you’re just going to have coffee with a man, then before you know it, you’re in bed together.”

27. “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 breaking a promise – for example, you promise yourself you’re just going to have coffee with a man, then before you know it, you’re in bed together.”

— Susan Cheever

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