As writers go, I have a skin of average thickness. I am pleased by a good review, disappointed by a bad. None of it penetrates far enough to influence the thing I write next.
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
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.
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…
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 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 …
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.
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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