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 CheeverWhen Tolstoy wrote that all happy families are alike, what he meant was that there are no happy families.
Susan CheeverI don't really think of writing as a career. It's something that happened to me. By working harder than I knew it was possible to work, I have become passable at it.
Susan CheeverI believe that the memoir is the novel of the 21st century; itโs an amazing form that we havenโt even begun to tapโฆweโre just getting started figuring out what the rules are.
Susan CheeverThe 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