"I was aware, in those early days of……" — Rachel Cusk
"I was aware, in those early days of motherhood, that my behaviour was strange to the people who knew me well. It was as though I had been brainwashed, taken over by a cult religion. And yet this cult, motherhood, was not a place where I could actually live. Like any cult, it demanded a complete surrender of identity to belong to it."
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61 Quotes by Rachel Cusk
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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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