"What compromises women - babies, domesticity, mediocrity -……" — Rachel Cusk
"What compromises women - babies, domesticity, mediocrity - compromises writing even more."
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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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More Babies Quotes
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Apart from anything else, I am designed by evolution, like we all are: if we see a little thing like…
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If you were to open up a baby's head - and I am not for a moment suggesting that you…
— Dave Barry
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I do believe babies are born potty-trained. They're born knowing and are able to give subtle signals that become very…
— Mayim Bialik
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There should be a worldwide law, in my opinion, that mothers should breastfeed their babies for six months.
— Gisele Bundchen
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Father asked us what was God's noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, but…
— Louisa May Alcott
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My mother goes crazy over babies. Some people just do. They love 'em! I never have. Babies scare me more…
— Margaret Cho
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It is the nature of babies to be in bliss.
— Deepak Chopra
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The tabloids, instead of being about alien babies and stuff, it's my triplets, quadruplets, marriages, feuds.
— Jennifer Aniston
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Once you leave the womb, conservatives don't care about you until you reach military age. Then you're just what they're…
— George Carlin
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The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the…
— Rajneesh
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"I call them april babies cause they fools"
— Lil Wayne
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I always wondered why babies spend so much time sucking their thumbs. Then I tasted baby food.
— Robert Orben
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