Susie Bright Quotes

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

"Natural" is a very dangerous word to use about sexuality ... Our society's notions of normality are completely fake and meta-trendy, since they rely on the changing standards of superstition, religion, Christianity and gender bias to define themselves. Americans, in particular, exhibit very childish reactions to sexual practices that are new to them, much like little kids who are offered a vegetable they haven't seen before: "That's disgusting!" "But darling, you haven't even tried it!" "I don't care, I hate it, I hate it!

Behind every erotic condemnation there's a burning hypocrite.

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

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!

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.

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.

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

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

People who love science fiction really do love sex.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

I got introduced to audiobooks because of having a baby

I love turning my daughter on to old movies.

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.

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

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

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