Rachel Cusk Quotes

Rachel Cusk
Canadian Novelist
Born: Feb 8, 1967
Life Me People Woman Writing You
Related authors: Claire Cameron David Bergen Joy Fielding Margaret Atwood Mordecai Richler Robertson Davies Ruth Ozeki
Modern morality is all about perception. Rachel Cusk
Perception About Morality Modern
The British have always made terrible parents. Rachel Cusk
Made Parents Terrible Always British
What compromises women - babies, domesticity, mediocrity - compromises writing even more. Rachel Cusk
Women Writing Mediocrity Babies More Compromises Even
The woman who has her being in marriage and motherhood has become part of antithetical reality, revoking property from the woman who remains in a condition of intangible femininity. Rachel Cusk
Property Woman Marriage Reality Become Motherhood Remains Part Femininity Intangible Condition Being Who Her
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. Rachel Cusk
Myself Me Experience Result Circumstances Attempt Raw Always Concrete Impose Form Novel Lived
Female hysteria is a subject I'm very fond of. I always try to bring it in somewhere. For me, it is the finest part of the line between comedy and tragedy. Rachel Cusk
Me Comedy Try Somewhere Finest Fond Part Hysteria Between Female Always Line Subject Tragedy Very Bring
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. Rachel Cusk
Life Home Woman Value Values Herself Both Mystique Exchanges Mythological Allowed She Because Enables Proven Domestic Domestic Life Want Wants Inherent Her Desire
Like the child, the creative writing student is posited as a centre of vulnerable creativity, needful of attention and authority. Rachel Cusk
Creative Creativity Writing Student Attention Like Vulnerable Child Authority Centre Creative Writing
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. Rachel Cusk
Good Skin Enough Pleased Bad Write Writers Disappointed None Am Go Review Influence Far Average Next Thing
My children are living, thinking human beings. It isn't in my power to regret them, for they belong to themselves. Rachel Cusk
Regret Power Living Thinking Human Children Human Beings Them Themselves Beings Belong
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