"Help is dangerous because it exists outside the……" — Rachel Cusk
"Help is dangerous because it exists outside the human economy: the only payment for help is gratitude."
—
Rachel Cusk
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
61 Quotes by Rachel Cusk
Rachel Cusk has 61 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
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…
-
Every time I write a book, I've probably taken five years off my life.
-
Feminism remains something that needs to be explained to people.
See all 61 quotes by Rachel Cusk »