An eating disorder epidemic suggests that love and disgust are being jointly marketed, as it were; that wherever the proposition might first have come from, the unacceptability of the female body has been disseminated culturally. — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
“the disgust that exists indelibly between men and women and that you are always trying to purge with what you call frankness. As soon as you cease to be frank, you see a stain, you are forced to acknowledge imperfection,… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
A creative writing workshop will contain students whose ambitions and abilities, whose conceptions of literature itself, are so diverse that what they have in… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share
“If a man had a nasty side to his character, she wanted to get to it immediately and confront it. She didn’t want it… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share
If I know somebody is coming 'round, it is incredibly difficult for me to work because I'm waiting for this interruption - even the… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share
I felt that I could swim for miles, out into the ocean: a desire for freedom, an impulse to move, tugged at me as… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share
The creativity of childhood was often surrendered amid feelings of unworthiness. So the idea that others are demanding to be given it back -… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share
A neighbor is something that belongs to the stable world of home life, the thing that lives next door to you. — Rachel Cusk Copy Share
Help is dangerous because it exists outside the human economy: the only payment for help is gratitude. — Rachel Cusk Copy Share
A feminist man is a bit like a vegetarian: it's the humanitarian principle he's defending, I suppose. — Rachel Cusk Copy Share
“At the time, he had got rid of her so efficiently and so suavely that she had felt almost reassured even as she was… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share
“From the distance of England the Italian cuisine seems to be all things to all people. It does not expect you to bend to… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share
You could time a suburban story by your watch: it lasts as long as it takes a small furry animal that's lonely to find… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share
It is expected that a children's story will raise a difficulty and then resolve it: increasingly, this resolution is so prompt and so resounding… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share
Human beings have a need, generally, to destroy things. The Freudian principle of civilisation is correct. There's always, always a difference between the family… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share
I don't think I knew that you could be a novelist. I think a lot of my students are in the same condition. I… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share
