Best Rachel Cusk Sayings
- 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 friends,… Aloud
- 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… Able
- What I increasingly felt, in marriage and in motherhood, was that to live as a woman and to live as a feminist were two different… Felt
- I have some pretty forceful ideas about the world - obviously I do. But I suppose I can only really speak about them from within… Forceful
- The anorexic is out to prove how little she needs, how little she can survive on; she is out, in a sense, to discredit her… Anorexic
- For years I had lived in my body half-consciously, ignoring it mostly, dismissing its agendas wherever I could, and forever pressing it into the service… Abuse
- To be optimistic about something that is absolutely unknown to you is unfounded. Absolutely
- I was born abroad, but my parents were both English. Still, those few years of separation, and then coming back to England as an outsider,… Ability
- What compromises women - babies, domesticity, mediocrity - compromises writing even more. Babies
- The woman who has her being in marriage and motherhood has become part of antithetical reality, revoking property from the woman who remains in a… Antithetical
- There is always shame in the creation of an object for the public gaze. Always Shame