The reaction to 'Aftermath' has been far worse than to 'A Life's Work,' yet I find I'm perhaps a little less touched by it. In both cases, I've coped artistically by believing the criticisms weren't right. They upset me, but they didn't challenge my understanding of how to write, nor of how morality functions in literature.
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
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
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
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…
Childhood, after all, is not an ending, but rather a state full of potent curiosity. - Rachel Cusk
Childhood, after all, is not an ending, but rather a state full of potent curiosity.
If love is what is held to make us immortal, hatred is the reverse. - Rachel Cusk
If love is what is held to make us immortal, hatred is the reverse.
I remain fascinated by where you go as a woman once you are a mother, and if you ever come back. - Rachel Cusk
I remain fascinated by where you go as a woman once you are a mother, and if you ever come back.
It is living, not thinking, as a feminist that has become the challenge. - Rachel Cusk
It is living, not thinking, as a feminist that has become the challenge.
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
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…
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
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 …
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
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 …
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