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Rachel Cusk has 61 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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It is interesting how keen people are for you to do something they would never dream of doing themselves, how enthusiasticall y…
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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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The British have always made terrible parents.
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Shame is something you'll find a lot of - particularly Catholic - girls feel about their bodies, about their sexuality, about their…
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The woman who thinks she can choose femininity, can toy with it like the social drinker toys with wine - well, she's…
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Honest criticism, I suppose, has its place. But honest writing is infinitely more valuable.
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A feminist man is a bit like a vegetarian: it's the humanitarian principle he's defending, I suppose.
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Childhood, after all, is not an ending, but rather a state full of potent curiosity.
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Christianity has kept itself going for centuries on hope alone, and has perpetrated all manner of naughtiness in the meantime.
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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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Every time I write a book, I've probably taken five years off my life.
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Feminism remains something that needs to be explained to people.
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The whole language of nature informs us, that in animated beings there is something above our powers of investigation; something which employs,…
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There was a whole language that I could never make function for myself in relationship to painting, and that was attitudes like…
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Homer's whole language, the language in which he lived, the language that he breathed, because he never saw it, or certainly those…
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There's a whole language out there, and one's role as a writer is to stumble around in it.
— Ciaran Carson
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When you’re writing, you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know. The whole language of writing for me is finding…
— James A. Baldwin
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One of the series I like is D.M. Cornish's 'Monster Blood Tattoo,' in which he creates a whole language. Kids who are…
— Matthew Tobin Anderson
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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…
— Rachel Cusk
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I had no voice to talk with because she was my whole language.
— Rob Sheffield
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What had been (at the beginning) no bigger than a full stop had expanded into a comma, a word, a sentence, a…
— Salman Rushdie
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