Susie Bright Quotes

You have to calendar time for yourself even if you have no idea what youre going to do with it.

Everyone wants to be a dyke now; everyone craves our freedom, guts, and knowing looks.

When AIDS was at its most brutal, frightening, my-God-what-are-we-going-to-do era, that was when vampire stories and stories about blood and trust swept the literary world.

I think that you have to do everything you can do to empower girls when they are young, from their education, to their successful independence, to their sexual self-knowledge.

Familiarity with your lover is what initially makes sex really good.

There IS more criticism of puritanism, and more distance from Christian morality, than there has been before.

Seeing lesbian photography is just the tip of my radicalized clitoris. I have modeled for, commissioned, published, and fought for these pictures, and answered threats against them. I've seen the feminist movement bring these pictures to life, and I've seen that same movement try to suppress the liberating results.

I'm like the kid in kindergarten; I really do send valentines to everyone.

I think moms need to share information on a regular, intimate basis.

Now I have to have the biggest P.O. box in the entire post office to get all the manuscripts coming in.

I see the effects of sexual and gender liberation all around me, just like you do, but I don't have a sense of being in the majority.

I got introduced to audiobooks because of having a baby

People who love science fiction really do love sex.

I'm a Mommy's Girl - the strongest influence in my young life was my mom.

Finding people who get enormous pleasure from reading books is a more and more unusual experience, and so writers just so much want to be heard.

Behind every erotic condemnation there's a burning hypocrite.

Photographs have always been the tar baby of censors and obscenity laws. Literature can certainly (if it's any good) conjure up the most pornographic imagination. But photographs dare to be real. No matter how contrived or constructed they are, there's that damn body staring you in the face.

I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood.

Keeping people neurotic and depressed and ignorant and self-doubting is oppressive.

Human beings like variety, and they also like partnership . . . these are scientific values we can point to.

Doing the right thing for someone else was like a tonic for me; it was like some magic ointment that made a wound disappear

I love turning my daughter on to old movies.

Many Americans who are not fastened at the temples to a Christian prayer book are offended by politicians who justify their decisions by piously quoting the Old Testament.

My idea of the ideal sex education site doesn't exist.

In fact, I think for a lot of writers, it's so hard to be read.

I got more and more politically active and just followed the course of feminism and sexual liberation

I had a hard time publishing my books in the beginning of my career, because editors were afraid what people would think of THEM, personally, if their name was associated with me

It's not that sexual liberation or feminist messages are dead.

So that would be a classic mixed message to young women: you should look a certain way that's going to destroy your reproductive system and your sexual appetite, but at the same time, you should be interested in sex!