The true self seeks release, not constraint. It doesnt want to be corseted in a sonnet or made to learn a system of musical notations. It wants liber…

- Rachel Cusk

Leaving things behind and starting again is a way of coping with difficulties. I learnt very early in my life that I was able to leave a place and st…

- Rachel Cusk

Childhood, after all, is not an ending, but rather a state full of potent curiosity.

- Rachel Cusk

If love is what is held to make us immortal, hatred is the reverse.

- Rachel Cusk

It is living, not thinking, as a feminist that has become the challenge.

- Rachel Cusk

I remain fascinated by where you go as a woman once you are a mother, and if you ever come back.

- Rachel Cusk

It is interesting how keen people are for you to do something they would never dream of doing themselves, how enthusiasticall y they drive you to you…

- Rachel Cusk

As it stands, motherhood is a sort of wilderness through which each woman hacks her way, part martyr, part pioneer; a turn of events from which some …

- Rachel Cusk

The distinctive feature of my family was intolerance of sensitivity and emotion - everything's great, it all has to be great all the time and why do …

- Rachel Cusk