Susan Cheever Quotes - Page 2

• 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

  Book, Numbers, Tasks

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• 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

  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

  Mother, Children, Husband

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

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