Mother Quotes by Rachel Cusk

10 Mother quotes by Rachel Cusk

Rachel Cusk distills her experience of motherhood into ten succinct statements. Each line offers a reflective piece of her perspective, giving readers a quick yet meaningful look at her thoughts on parenting.

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My children are living, thinking human beings. It isn't in my power to regret them, for they belong to themselves.

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

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How can there be so many mothers in the world but so little sense of what it might be to become one?

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I am a good and interested mother - which has surprised me.

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To become a mother is to learn a whole language - to relearn it, perhaps, as it was the tongue to which…

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Even if they knew the truth of their own feelings, most mothers would be socially and emotionally incapable of revealing it.

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The anorexic body is held in the grip of will alone; its meaning is far from stable. What it says - 'Notice…

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The 'good' mother, with her fixed smile, her rigidity, her goody-goody outlook, her obsession with unnecessary hygiene, is in fact a fool.…

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“For many women,’ she said, ‘having a child is their central experience of creativity, and yet the child will never remain a…

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

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