Susan Cheever Quotes

I am a recovering alcoholic.

Lot of my life is involved in the 12-step program and the church.

Why is it a badge of honour to say you spent 15 years in AA ball?

When I got sober, that was 1990.

My Sunday mornings are spent in a recovery meeting in Pacific Palisades.

I remember being very young and going to AA meetings with my father in Brooklyn. I thought it was fun because they served hot chocolate and cookies.

I'm a recovering alcoholic so I should be home.

My spiritual system is 12-step programs. That's the only one I've ever had. I didn't have one before that.

I wish I'd gotten sober at a younger age.

I keep telling people: Don't make me the poster boy for AA because I don't know a lot about sobriety, but I do know a lot about drinking.

Mr. Speaker, as a grateful recovering alcoholic of 24 years myself, I am living proof that treatment does work and that recovery is real.

I'm part of AA. I have a sponsor. I have great, great friends who I love and who love me.

I can't emphasise enough how grateful I am to have come upon sobriety.

I don't believe I'm a recovering alcoholic - I'm someone who used to drink. AA comes from a religious movement and that whole thing of 'I'm always burdened with this' and the original sin idea. It's not like that for me.

Have you ever been to an AA meeting? No wonder these people are alcoholics - I've never needed a drink more badly in my life.

I'm no alcoholic. I'm a drunkard. There's a difference. A drunkard doesn't like to go to meetings.

I hate when your friends quit drinking on you, don't you? It's sad. I've lost more friends to AA than Liberace did to the virus. It's sad to see 'em go. You see a thirty day chip on your buddy's key ring, it's like seeing a toe tag on his cold, stiff corpse.

I've been in a treatment center for drinkin'. I stayed for two days, then escaped.

My makeup wasn't smeared, I wasn't disheveled, I behaved politely, and I never finished off a bottle, so how could I be alcoholic?

And I have always told the patients when I talk to them. When they come around and say, 'What will you have to drink? Oh that's right you don't drink.' Just speak up and say, 'Of course I drink. But I just don't drink alcohol.'

I never had one beer. If I bought a six-pack of beer, I kept drinking till all six beers were gone. You have to have that kind of understanding about yourself. I haven't had a drink now in 12 years.

I was an alcoholic, for sure. It became a problem steadily over the course of six years.

I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.

Since I've quit drinking, I'm not sure I've found the good life, but I've certainly uncovered a better one.

I used to be a drinker but I found out how bad it was and I let it alone.