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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.
Rachel Cusk
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Rachel Cusk
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: January 1
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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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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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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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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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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.
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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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Hope is one of those no-win-no-fee things, and although it needs some encouragement to survive, its existence doesn't necessarily prove anything.
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Feminism remains something that needs to be explained to people.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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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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A feminist man is a bit like a vegetarian: it's the humanitarian principle he's defending, I suppose.
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Every time I write a book, I've probably taken five years off my life.
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It is living, not thinking, as a feminist that has become the challenge.
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Honest criticism, I suppose, has its place. But honest writing is infinitely more valuable.
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The creativity of childhood was often surrendered amid feelings of unworthiness. So the idea that others are demanding to be given it back - to be taught - is disturbing.
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