"Every time I write a book, I've probably……" — Rachel Cusk

"Every time I write a book, I've probably taken five years off my life."

— Rachel Cusk

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61 Quotes by Rachel Cusk

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It is interesting how keen people are for you to do something they would never dream of doing themselves, how…
My children are living, thinking human beings. It isn't in my power to regret them, for they belong to themselves.
The British have always made terrible parents.
Shame is something you'll find a lot of - particularly Catholic - girls feel about their bodies, about their sexuality,…
The woman who thinks she can choose femininity, can toy with it like the social drinker toys with wine -…
Honest criticism, I suppose, has its place. But honest writing is infinitely more valuable.
A feminist man is a bit like a vegetarian: it's the humanitarian principle he's defending, I suppose.
Childhood, after all, is not an ending, but rather a state full of potent curiosity.
Christianity has kept itself going for centuries on hope alone, and has perpetrated all manner of naughtiness in the meantime.
Even if they knew the truth of their own feelings, most mothers would be socially and emotionally incapable of revealing…
Feminism remains something that needs to be explained to people.
For me, a novel is always the result of my attempt to impose myself on raw circumstances. It is a…

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I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books. — Margaret Atwood
Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it. — Margaret Atwood
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Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But… — Margaret Atwood

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