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Modern morality is all about perception.

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Rachel Cusk
Age: 58
Born: 1967
Born: January 1
Novelist
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Perception
Morality
Modern

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It is living, not thinking, as a feminist that has become the challenge.
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The distinctive feature of my family was intolerance of sensitivity and emotion - everything's great, it all has to be great all the time and why do you have to spoil it? Whereas probably the most fundamental and important thing to me has been defending my right to tell the truth about how I feel.
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I don't really believe in stories, only in the people who tell them.
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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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Reality might be described as the eternal equipoise of positive and negative.
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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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Help is dangerous because it exists outside the human economy: the only payment for help is gratitude.
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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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A feminist man is a bit like a vegetarian: it's the humanitarian principle he's defending, I suppose.
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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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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.
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