Top 78 Quotes by Rachel Cusk

About Rachel Cusk

These are some quotes by Canadian author Rachel Cusk Novelist, who was born in 1967.

I have absolutely no concept of work, except for university. But I like to talk to people a lot about their jobs.

I have absolutely no concept of work, except for university. But I like to talk to people a lot about their jobs.

Rachel Cusk

I'm waiting for the day when my children cease to find my domestic propriety reassuring and actually find it annoying.

I'm waiting for the day when my children cease to find my domestic propriety reassuring and actually find it annoying.

Rachel Cusk

How can there be so many mothers in the world but so little sense of what it might be to become one?

How can there be so many mothers in the world but so little sense of what it might be to become one?

Rachel Cusk

It seems to me that 'women's writing' by nature would not seek equivalence in the male world. It would be a writing that sought to express a distinction, not deny it.

It seems to me that 'women's writing' by nature would not seek equivalence in the male world. It would be a writing that sought to express a distinction, not deny it.

Rachel Cusk

It is living, not thinking, as a feminist that has become the challenge.

It is living, not thinking, as a feminist that has become the challenge.

Rachel Cusk

What I increasingly felt, in marriage and in motherhood, was that to live as a woman and to live as a feminist were two different and possibly irreconcilable things.

What I increasingly felt, in marriage and in motherhood, was that to live as a woman and to live as a feminist were two different and possibly irreconcilable things.

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.

Rachel Cusk

The woman who thinks she can choose femininity, can toy with it like the social drinker toys with wine - well, she's asking for it, asking to be undone, devoured, asking to spend her life perpetrating a new fraud, manufacturing a new fake identity, only this time it's her equality that's fake.

Rachel Cusk

Female hysteria is a subject I'm very fond of. I always try to bring it in somewhere. For me, it is the finest part of the line between comedy and tragedy.

Female hysteria is a subject I'm very fond of. I always try to bring it in somewhere. For me, it is the finest part of the line between comedy and tragedy.

Rachel Cusk

Feminism remains something that needs to be explained to people.

Feminism remains something that needs to be explained to people.

Rachel Cusk

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