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Feminism remains something that needs to be explained to people.

Rachel Cusk

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Rachel Cusk
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: January 1
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Feminism
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The true self seeks release, not constraint. It doesnt 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.
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The writing you allude to is a form of dissent, but it's also expressive of the need to evolve beyond what is turgid and stale in contemporary fiction.
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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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I don't really believe in stories, only in the people who tell them.
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I'm a novelist, not a social scientist or a commentator.
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It is living, not thinking, as a feminist that has become the challenge.
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Help is dangerous because it exists outside the human economy: the only payment for help is gratitude.
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As writers go, I have a skin of average thickness. I am pleased by a good review, disappointed by a bad. None of it penetrates far enough to influence the thing I write next.
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