I'm happy to be a woman but much of it was learned over the course of life. Really thudded into me. You learn it. It's a kind of mastery and artistry. The deeper person underneath the scent of Diptyque Philosykos or whatever is much less gendered. Every person has a range. In fiction, you get to be it all. I'm as much the men in my book as I am the women. I write how I write and there is no mission to stake a claim.
It's amazing how life conspires to set you up with what you need. - Rachel Kushner
It's amazing how life conspires to set you up with what you need.
- Rachel Kushner
I was doing that thing the infatuated do, stitching destiny onto the person we want stitched to us. - Rachel Kushner
I was doing that thing the infatuated do, stitching destiny onto the person we want stitched to us.
To be alive is to listen quietly while other people talk. That's how you learn something. - Rachel Kushner
To be alive is to listen quietly while other people talk. That's how you learn something.
I love to be alone, I find it necessary, but I don't know if that's just how I am or if it's an essential ingredient to making, to art. Certainly on … - Rachel Kushner
I love to be alone, I find it necessary, but I don't know if that's just how I am or if it's an essential ingredient to making, to art. Certainly on …
And here I arrive at my point. The point is that everyone has a different dream. The point is that it is a grave mistake to assume your dream is in a… - Rachel Kushner
And here I arrive at my point. The point is that everyone has a different dream. The point is that it is a grave mistake to assume your dream is in a…
I don't really see art as structured by logic. - Rachel Kushner
I don't really see art as structured by logic.
I think art is much more about an engagement with the world, a way of being called upon and recognizing that the world is speaking to you. Which isn'… - Rachel Kushner
I think art is much more about an engagement with the world, a way of being called upon and recognizing that the world is speaking to you. Which isn'…
People who want their love easy don't really want love. - Rachel Kushner
People who want their love easy don't really want love.
A funny thing about women and machines: the combination made men curious. - Rachel Kushner
A funny thing about women and machines: the combination made men curious.
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