Rachel Cusk Quotes - Page 3

• I have no sense of a model or predecessor when I write a memoir: For me, the form exists as a method of processing material that retains too many connections to life to be approached strictly and aesthetically. A memoir is a risk, a one-off, a bastard child.

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  Children, Writing, Risk

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• I am a good and interested mother - which has surprised me.

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  Madre

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• Shame is something you'll find a lot of - particularly Catholic - girls feel about their bodies, about their sexuality, about their diet, about anything you like. Shame is the way you keep them down. That's the way to crush a girl.

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  Crush, Girl, Catholic

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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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  Home, Desire, Want

  "The simmering but stymied rage of stay-at-home mums" by Rachel Cusk, www.theguardian.com. October 9, 2010.

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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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  Encouragement, Winning, Needs

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• A creative writing workshop will contain students whose ambitions and abilities, whose conceptions of literature itself, are so diverse that what they have in common - the desire to write - could almost be considered meaningless.

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  Writing, Ambition, Creative

  "Rachel Cusk: in praise of the creative writing course" by Rachel Cusk, www.theguardian.com. January 18, 2013.

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• There are certain types of slightly hysterical human characters who, rather than creating, walk around with a sense of their own potential - it's as if they themselves were art objects. They feel as if their lives are written narratives, or pieces of music.

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  Art, Character, Creating

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• The reaction to 'Aftermath' has been far worse than to 'A Life's Work,' yet I find I'm perhaps a little less touched by it. In both cases, I've coped artistically by believing the criticisms weren't right. They upset me, but they didn't challenge my understanding of how to write, nor of how morality functions in literature.

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  Believe, Writing, Understanding

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• Modern morality is all about perception.

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  Perception, Morality, Modern

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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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  Mother, Mean, Attention

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

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  Inspiración, Motivación, Pensamiento

  "Rachel Cusk: 'Divorce is only darkness'". Interview with Katharine Viner, www.theguardian.com. February 20, 2012.

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• Es un proceso bastante brutal, tener un bebé.

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  Baby, Having A Baby, Process

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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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  Men, Feminist, Principles

  Rachel Cusk (2012). “Aftermath: On Marriage and Separation”, p.13, Faber & Faber

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• Honest criticism, I suppose, has its place. But honest writing is infinitely more valuable.

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  Writing, Criticism, Honest

  "Can creative writing ever be taught?" by Rachel Cusk, www.theguardian.com. January 29, 2010.

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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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  Home, Doors, World

  "Go Forth (Vol. 34)". Interview with Alice Whitwham, logger.believermag.com. June 17, 2015.

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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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  Divorce, Reality, Might

  "Go Forth (Vol. 34)". Interview with Alice Whitwham, logger.believermag.com. June 17, 2015.

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• Christianity has kept itself going for centuries on hope alone, and has perpetrated all manner of naughtiness in the meantime.

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  Christianity, Century

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