Quotes by Rachel Cusk

Rachel Cusk

A feminist man is a bit like a vegetarian: it’s the humanitarian principle he’s defending, I suppose.

Feminist

Men

Principles

A sentence is born into this world neither good nor bad, and that to establish its character is a question of the subtlest possible adjustments, a process of intuition to which exaggeration and force are fatal.

Character

Intuition

World

As it stands, motherhood is a sort of wilderness through which each woman hacks her way, part martyr, part pioneer; a turn of events from which some women derive feelings of heroism, while others experience a sense of exile from the world they knew.

Being A Mother

Feelings

Motherhood

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

Childhood

Curiosity

States

Even if they knew the truth of their own feelings, most mothers would be socially and emotionally incapable of revealing it.

Feelings

Mother

Would Be

For me, a novel is always the result of my attempt to impose myself on raw circumstances. It is a concrete form of lived experience.

Circumstances

Form

Results

Having your second child, in case you were wondering, is a lot harder than having your first, except for those people who find it easier. I’m afraid I don’t have the latest figures to confirm this.

Children

Firsts

People

Help is dangerous because it exists outside the human economy: the only payment for help is gratitude.

Economy

Gratitude

Helping

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.

Lying

Orchids

Toxic Waste

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.

Encouragement

Needs

Winning

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Able

Adults

Annoying

Art

Artist

Attention

Baby

Being A Mother

Believe

Black

Book

British

Character

Childhood

Children

Circumstances

Community

Company

Contemporary Fiction

Culture

Curiosity

Differences

Dream

Economy

Encouragement

Events

Feelings

Feminist

Firsts

Form

Gratitude

Having A Baby

Helping

Interesting

Intuition

Jobs

Justice

Leaving

Lying

Made

May

Mean

Men

Might

Modern

Morality

Mother

Motherhood

Moving

Musical

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Quotes by Rachel Cusk

Rachel Cusk

A feminist man is a bit like a vegetarian: it’s the humanitarian principle he’s defending, I suppose.

A sentence is born into this world neither good nor bad, and that to establish its character is a question of the subtlest possible adjustments, a process of intuition to which exaggeration and force are fatal.

As it stands, motherhood is a sort of wilderness through which each woman hacks her way, part martyr, part pioneer; a turn of events from which some women derive feelings of heroism, while others experience a sense of exile from the world they knew.

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

Even if they knew the truth of their own feelings, most mothers would be socially and emotionally incapable of revealing it.

For me, a novel is always the result of my attempt to impose myself on raw circumstances. It is a concrete form of lived experience.

Having your second child, in case you were wondering, is a lot harder than having your first, except for those people who find it easier. I’m afraid I don’t have the latest figures to confirm this.

Help is dangerous because it exists outside the human economy: the only payment for help is gratitude.

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.

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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