"I have no sense of a model or……" — Rachel Cusk
"I have no sense of a model or predecessor when I write a memoir: For me, the form exists as a method of processing material that retains too many connections to life to be approached strictly and aesthetically. A memoir is a risk, a one-off, a bastard child."
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Rachel Cusk
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61 Quotes by Rachel Cusk
Rachel Cusk has 61 quotes on this site.
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It is interesting how keen people are for you to do something they would never dream of doing themselves, how…
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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,…
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The woman who thinks she can choose femininity, can toy with it like the social drinker toys with wine -…
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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…
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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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We live in a youth-obsessed, aesthetically obsessed culture. That is no more evident than in the film industry.
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The buttocks are the most aesthetically pleasing part of the body because they are non-functional. Although they conceal an essential…
— Kenneth Tynan
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Two things are aesthetically perfect in the world - the clock and the cat.
— Emile Chartier
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[Presently, science undergraduates] do not learn to write clearly and briefly, marshalling their points in due and aesthetically satisfying order,…
— William Lawrence Bragg
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The practice of conservation must spring from a conviction of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what…
— Aldo Leopold
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I hated grunge. No one’s more feminist than me, but you don’t have to look as if you don’t give…
— Catherine Zeta-Jones
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I dont think gender is aesthetically defining for me.
— Suzanne Vega
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Design is about the betterment of our lives poetically, aesthetically, experientially, sensorially, and emotionally.
— Karim Rashid
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But every day I go to work I'm making a bet that the universe is simple, symmetric, and aesthetically pleasing—a…
— George Smoot
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It is true that all men are created in the image of God, but Christians are supposed to be conscious…
— Edith Schaeffer
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Encouraged, we recognise the importance of living artistically, aesthetically and creatively as creative creatures of the creator.
— Edith Schaeffer
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I try to make my things aesthetically pleasing; but, if it isn’t functional, people will ‘oo’ and ‘aah’ over it…
— Sam Maloof
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