Susie Bright Quotes & Sayings
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Famous Quotes By Susie Bright
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. — Susie Bright
I wanted to be Emma Goldman. I wanted to digest Doris Lessing's Golden Notebooks like biscuits. I felt like Harriet the Spy, looking for a dumbwaiter to hide in, scribbling down all I witnessed. — Susie Bright
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. — Susie Bright
You have to calendar time for yourself even if you have no idea what you're going to do with it. — Susie Bright
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. — Susie Bright
Human beings like variety, and they also like partnership ... these are scientific values we can point to. — Susie Bright
Everyone wants to be a dyke now; everyone craves our freedom, guts, and knowing looks. — Susie Bright
I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood. — Susie Bright
It's not that sexual liberation or feminist messages are dead. — Susie Bright
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. — Susie Bright
Radical feminists didn't need FBI infiltration - the mechanism for sisterly cannibalization was already well under way. — Susie Bright
Behind every erotic condemnation there's a burning hypocrite. — Susie Bright
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. — Susie Bright
... The shocking thing about any stripper gathering, I discovered, was that you have never heard women talk so fast and so explicitly about money in all your life. They make the guys on the trading floor on Wall Street look like a bunch of pansies. — Susie Bright
I love turning my daughter on to old movies. — Susie Bright
There was one rumor that "Susie Bright" and sex theorist "Pat Califia" were one and the same, and that this individual was not actually a woman at all but a pimp hired by an entity composed of the Mitchell Brothers and a Japanese porn syndicate, which was selling women as sex slaves overseas. — Susie Bright
My idea of the ideal sex education site doesn't exist. — Susie Bright
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. — Susie Bright
I could not take one more minute of trying to convince the people of Los Angeles that a workers' revolution and a complete overhaul of society was a tiny bit more exciting than getting a bit role in a Burger King commercial — Susie Bright
What's so wonderful about experiments is that often they don't work. They do blow up in the oven; the Bride of Frankenstein does crawl out and strangle you with a black leotard while you shout your last prayers. It's only once you've tasted your own shocking failures, harebrained ideas, and sudden departures that you will realize something quite wonderful. — Susie Bright
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! — Susie Bright
I'm like the kid in kindergarten; I really do send valentines to everyone. — Susie Bright
I'm as vulnerable as anybody to the toxicity of the American nuclear family. But I wouldn't call it disease or moral failure as much as I would point the finger at a system that grinds people down like a metal file. Who doesn't need a drink? Who isn't going to crack and lash out at the people they love? — Susie Bright
There are also just as many, if not more, women who are anxious to hold down the status quo. — Susie Bright
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. — Susie Bright
Americans had to tie every radical aspiration into a puritanical knot. — Susie Bright
Now I have to have the biggest P.O. box in the entire post office to get all the manuscripts coming in. — Susie Bright
I got more and more politically active and just followed the course of feminism and sexual liberation. — Susie Bright
People who love science fiction really do love sex. — Susie Bright
There is more criticism of puritanism, and more distance from Christian morality, than there has been before. — Susie Bright
I got introduced to audiobooks because of having a baby. — Susie Bright
In fact, I think for a lot of writers, it's so hard to be read. — Susie Bright
Here was the real scandal of On Our Backs photography: We were women shooting other women - our names, faces, and bodies on the line - and we all brought our sexual agenda to the lens. Each pictorial was a memoir. That is quite the opposite of a fashion shoot at Vogue or Playboy, where the talent is a prop ...
When we began our magazine, female fashion and portrait models - all of them - were shot the same way kittens and puppies are photographed for holiday calendars: in fetching poses, with no intentions of their own. — Susie Bright
Keeping people neurotic and depressed and ignorant and self-doubting is oppressive. — Susie Bright
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. — Susie Bright
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! — Susie Bright