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

Rachel Cusk

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Rachel Cusk
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: January 1
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Reality might be described as the eternal equipoise of positive and negative.
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It is interesting how keen people are for you to do something they would never dream of doing themselves, how enthusiasticall y they drive you to your own destruction.
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I felt that I could swim for miles, out into the ocean: a desire for freedom, an impulse to move, tugged at me as though it were a thread fastened to my chest. It was an impulse I knew well, and I had learned that it was not the summons from a larger world I used to believe it to be. It was simply a desire to escape from what I had.
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Leaving things behind and starting again is a way of coping with difficulties. I learnt very early in my life that I was able to leave a place and still remain myself.
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We who were born were not witnesses to our birth: like death, it is something we are forever after trying to catch sight of.
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I don't really believe in stories, only in the people who tell them.
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Every time I write a book, I've probably taken five years off my life.
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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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I'm a novelist, not a social scientist or a commentator.
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A neighbor is something that belongs to the stable world of home life, the thing that lives next door to you.
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The anorexic body is held in the grip of will alone its meaning is far from stable. What it says - 'Notice me, feed me, mother me' - is not what it means, for such attentions constitute an agonising test of that will, and also threaten to return the body to the dreaded 'normality' it has been such ecstasy to escape.
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Feminism remains something that needs to be explained to people.
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If love is what is held to make us immortal, hatred is the reverse.
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Hope is like one of those orchids that grows around toxic waste: lovely in itself - and an assertion, if you like, of indefatigable good - but a sure sign that something nasty lies underneath.
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Divorce also entails the beginning of a supposition that that familial reality might have obstructed one's ability to perceive others.
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Honest criticism, I suppose, has its place. But honest writing is infinitely more valuable.
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I don't go to church any more, but I think that Catholicism is rather like the brand they use on cattle: I feel so formed in that Catholic mould that I don't think I could adopt any other form of spirituality. I still get feelings of consolation about churches.
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In domestic life the woman's value is inherent, unquantifiable at home she exchanges proven values for mythological ones. She wants to be at home, and because she is a woman she's allowed to want it. This desire is her mystique, it is both what enables her to domesticate herself and what disempowers her.
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I have absolutely no concept of work, except for university. But I like to talk to people a lot about their jobs.
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Even if they knew the truth of their own feelings, most mothers would be socially and emotionally incapable of revealing it.
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