I don't go to church any more, but I think that Catholicism is rather like the brand they use on cattle: I… — Rachel Cusk Brands Copy Share Image
“There was a poem, she said, by Beckett that he had written twice, once in French and once in English, as if… — Rachel Cusk Poetry 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.… — Rachel Cusk Men and women Copy Share Image
The woman who has her being in marriage and motherhood has become part of antithetical reality, revoking property from the woman who… — Rachel Cusk Become Copy Share Image
Childhood, after all, is not an ending, but rather a state full of potent curiosity. — Rachel Cusk Childhood Copy Share Image
The reaction to 'Aftermath' has been far worse than to 'A Life's Work,' yet I find I'm perhaps a little less touched… — Rachel Cusk Aftermath Copy Share Image
“Whatever we might wish to believe about ourselves, we are only the result of how others have treated us.” — Rachel Cusk Faith Copy Share Image
I was born abroad, but my parents were both English. Still, those few years of separation, and then coming back to England… — Rachel Cusk Ability Copy Share Image
“you had said those things to him, you understand, you would have heard some truths in return. If you had been frank… — Rachel Cusk Truth Copy Share Image
“It is interesting how keen people are for you to do something they would never dream of doing themselves, how enthusiastically they… — Rachel Cusk Advice Copy Share Image
As writers go, I have a skin of average thickness. I am pleased by a good review, disappointed by a bad. None… — Rachel Cusk Average Copy Share Image
The woman who thinks she can choose femininity, can toy with it like the social drinker toys with wine - well, she's… — Rachel Cusk Asking Copy Share Image
Even if they knew the truth of their own feelings, most mothers would be socially and emotionally incapable of revealing it. — Rachel Cusk Emotionally Copy Share Image
“I remembered the way, when each of my sons was a baby, they would deliberately drop things from their high chair in… — Rachel Cusk First time Copy Share Image
“They walked in straight lines that the dogs scribbled all over.” — Rachel Cusk Straight line Copy Share Image
We who were born were not witnesses to our birth: like death, it is something we are forever after trying to catch… — Rachel Cusk Birth Copy Share Image
I was aware, in those early days of motherhood, that my behaviour was strange to the people who knew me well. It… — Rachel Cusk Behaviour Copy Share Image
I have absolutely no concept of work, except for university. But I like to talk to people a lot about their jobs. — Rachel Cusk Career Copy Share Image
There's this really good line in 'Women in Love' where Ursula says, 'I always thought it was a sin to be unhappy.'… — Rachel Cusk Actually Copy Share Image
I have some pretty forceful ideas about the world - obviously I do. But I suppose I can only really speak about… — Rachel Cusk About Copy Share Image
The anorexic is out to prove how little she needs, how little she can survive on; she is out, in a sense,… — Rachel Cusk Anorexic Copy Share Image
Writing, more than any other art, is indexed to the worthiness of the self because it is identified in people's minds with… — Rachel Cusk Any Copy Share Image
“I have this theory that most artists never leave childhood, that you're endlessly trying to work out what happened. And leaving university… — Rachel Cusk Adult life Copy Share Image
