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 feltfeministincreasingly Change image and share on social
I'm a novelist, not a social scientist or a commentator. Rachel Cusk commentatornovelistscientist Change image and share on social
The British have always made terrible parents. Rachel Cusk britishmakeparent Change image and share on social
An eating disorder epidemic suggests that love and disgust are being jointly marketed, as it were; that wherever the proposition might first have come from, the unacceptability of the female body has been disseminated culturally. Rachel Cusk bodyculturallydisgust share on social
It's a pretty brutal process, having a baby. Rachel Cusk babybrutalpretty Change image and share on social
Like the child, the creative writing student is posited as a centre of vulnerable creativity, needful of attention and authority. Rachel Cusk attentionauthoritycentre Change image and share on social
I sometimes feel that the world is a very uncivilised place where it is meant to be at its most civilised. Where it's meant to be intellectual or artistic or compassionate, it isn't, and that makes me very angry. Rachel Cusk angryartisticcivilise share on social
I have absolutely no concept of work, except for university. But I like to talk to people a lot about their jobs. Rachel Cusk absolutelyconceptjob Change image and share on social
How can there be so many mothers in the world but so little sense of what it might be to become one? Rachel Cusk mothersenseworld Change image and share on social
The true self seeks release, not constraint. It doesn't want to be corseted in a sonnet or made to learn a system of musical notations. It wants liberation, which is why very often it fastens on the novel, for the novel seems spacious, undefined, free. Rachel Cusk constraintcorsetefasten share on social
