“It was just a question of not looking too closely at things. Close-up, the mad weave was bizarre and imageless, but from… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
“For many women,’ she said, ‘having a child is their central experience of creativity, and yet the child will never remain a… — Rachel Cusk Children Copy Share Image
There is always shame in the creation of an object for the public gaze. — Rachel Cusk Always Copy Share Image
“we’ve become convinced that if we say even a word out of place we’ve marked them forever, but of course that is… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
“But his own mother had once said to him, in the period after his first marriage had ended when he was deeply… — Rachel Cusk Children Copy Share Image
What other grown-up gets told how to do their job so often as a writer? — Rachel Cusk Jobs Copy Share Image
I absolutely don't dislike children - I would choose their company over adult company any time. — Rachel Cusk Adult Copy Share Image
“This feeling, of being negated at the same time as I was exposed, had had a particularly powerful effect on me, I… — Rachel Cusk Time Copy Share Image
I suppose, I said, it is one definition of love, the belief in something that only the two of you can see. — Rachel Cusk Belief Copy Share Image
I don't really believe in stories, only in the people who tell them. — Rachel Cusk Believe Copy Share Image
I remain fascinated by where you go as a woman once you are a mother, and if you ever come back. — Rachel Cusk Back Copy Share Image
Every time I write a book, I've probably taken five years off my life. — Rachel Cusk Book Copy Share Image
What I increasingly felt, in marriage and in motherhood, was that to live as a woman and to live as a feminist… — Rachel Cusk Different Copy Share Image
To become a mother is to learn a whole language - to relearn it, perhaps, as it was the tongue to which… — Rachel Cusk Born Copy Share Image
Some people are better at maths than others: no one thinks you can be 'taught' to be a mathematical genius. And no… — Rachel Cusk Being Copy Share Image
Parenthood, like death, is an event for which it is nearly impossible to be prepared. It brings you into a new relationship… — Rachel Cusk Be prepared Copy Share Image
“he has too much fear, so much that he is driven to enact the thing of which he is afraid, lest it… — Rachel Cusk Children Copy Share Image
It is living, not thinking, as a feminist that has become the challenge. — Rachel Cusk Become Copy Share Image
The old world of England was picturesque and safe in a way that L.A. wasn't, but it was so amazingly socially cruel.… — Rachel Cusk Amazingly Copy Share Image
“while he talked she began to see herself as a shape, an outline, with all the detail filled in around it while… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
How can there be so many mothers in the world but so little sense of what it might be to become one? — Rachel Cusk How Copy Share Image
For years I had lived in my body half-consciously, ignoring it mostly, dismissing its agendas wherever I could, and forever pressing it… — Rachel Cusk Abuse Copy Share Image
Having your second child, in case you were wondering, is a lot harder than having your first, except for those people who… — Rachel Cusk Case Copy Share Image
