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Rachel Cusk

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.

– Rachel Cusk

Rachel Cusk

We who were born were not witnesses to our birth: like death, it is something we are forever after trying to catch sight of.

– Rachel Cusk

Rachel Cusk

To become a mother is to learn a whole language – to relearn it, perhaps, as it was the tongue to which we were born – and hence gain entrance to a forgotten world of comprehension.

– Rachel Cusk

Rachel Cusk

How can there be so many mothers in the world but so little sense of what it might be to become one?

– Rachel Cusk

Rachel Cusk

You could time a suburban story by your watch: it lasts as long as it takes a small furry animal that’s lonely to find friends, or a small furry animal that’s lost to find its parents; it lasts as long as a quick avowal of love; it lasts precisely as long as the average parent is disposed on a Tuesday night to spend reading aloud to children.

– Rachel Cusk

Rachel Cusk

It is expected that a children’s story will raise a difficulty and then resolve it: increasingly, this resolution is so prompt and so resounding that one forgets what exactly the difficulty was.

– Rachel Cusk

Rachel Cusk

Childhood, after all, is not an ending, but rather a state full of potent curiosity.

– Rachel Cusk

Rachel Cusk

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.

– Rachel Cusk

Rachel Cusk

There’s this really good line in ‘Women in Love’ where Ursula says, ‘I always thought it was a sin to be unhappy.’ And actually I think that’s very common, it’s what a lot of people feel – that you have an obligation to life to be happy if you can.

– Rachel Cusk

Rachel Cusk

I absolutely don’t dislike children – I would choose their company over adult company any time.

– Rachel Cusk

Rachel Cusk

In memoir, you have to be particularly careful not to alienate the reader by making the material seem too lived-in. It mustn’t have too much of the smell of yourself, otherwise the reader will be unable to make it her own.

– Rachel Cusk

Rachel Cusk

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

– Rachel Cusk

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