"The woman who has her being in marriage……" — Rachel Cusk
"The woman who has her being in marriage and motherhood has become part of antithetical reality, revoking property from the woman who remains in a condition of intangible femininity."
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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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There is no patriotic obligation to help advance the career of a politician who is otherwise pursuing interests that are…
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The kind of pace that you want to use in a Western - just to acknowledge the land in the…
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The two ideas are antithetical. Insofar as photography is (or should be) about the world, the photographer counts for little,…
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The concept that one ought to restrict one's political involvement to one's own state was deeply antithetical to those who…
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What an antithetical mind! - tenderness, roughness - delicacy, coarseness - sentiment, sensuality - soaring and groveling, dirt and deity…
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Listen, the environmental movement is not about protecting the fishes and the birds so much as recognizing that nature is…
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Whether it's polygamy, whether it's adultery, whether it's sodomy, all of those things, are antithetical to a healthy, stable, traditional…
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Now that they've finished reading the Constitution out loud, the Teabaggers must call out that group of elitist liberals whose…
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I reject her [Ayn Rand's] philosophy. It's an atheist philosophy. It reduces human interactions down to mere contracts and it…
— Paul Ryan
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In many ways Nazism was antithetical to what the great mass of Germans said they admired - and certainly to…
— Unknown Author
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The values of science and the values of democracy are concordant, in many cases indistinguishable. Science and democracy began -…
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