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Some say that Cusk has no sense of humour, but expecting giggles from this writer would be akin to expecting sonnets from Benny Hill.
— Julie Burchill
I suppose, I said, it is one definition of love, the belief in something that only the two of you can see.
— Rachel Cusk
Even if they knew the truth of their own feelings, most mothers would be socially and emotionally incapable of revealing it.
— 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
I'm waiting for the day when my children cease to find my domestic propriety reassuring and actually find it annoying.
— Rachel Cusk
The British have always made terrible parents.
— Rachel Cusk
Modern morality is all about perception.
— Rachel Cusk
I mean, you never hear someone say they wanted to have an affair but they couldn't find the time, do you?
— Rachel Cusk
I remain fascinated by where you go as a woman once you are a mother, and if you ever come back.
— Rachel Cusk
Money is a country all its own,
— Rachel Cusk
What compromises women - babies, domesticity, mediocrity - compromises writing even more.
— Rachel Cusk
Christianity has kept itself going for centuries on hope alone, and has perpetrated all manner of naughtiness in the meantime.
— Rachel Cusk
My children are living, thinking human beings. It isn't in my power to regret them, for they belong to themselves.
— Rachel Cusk
I didn't appear to need anyone: I could do it all myself. I could do everything. I was both halves: did that mean I was whole?
— Rachel Cusk
Rachel Cusk's books are like pop-up volumes for grown-ups, the prose springing out of the page to bop you neatly between the eyes with its insights.
— Julie Burchill
I'm a novelist, not a social scientist or a commentator.
— Rachel Cusk
Help is dangerous because it exists outside the human economy: the only payment for help is gratitude.
— Rachel Cusk
A lot of people want to be writers: there was no reason to think you couldn't buy your way into it.
— Rachel Cusk
A feminist man is a bit like a vegetarian: it's the humanitarian principle he's defending, I suppose.
— 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
A neighbor is something that belongs to the stable world of home life, the thing that lives next door to you.
— Rachel Cusk
Most of didn't know how truly good or truly bad we were, and most of us would never be sufficiently tested to find out.
— Rachel Cusk
It seems success takes you away from what you know, [Athenian plane passenger] said, while failure condemns you to it.
— Rachel Cusk
And of those two ways of living - living in the moment and living outside it - which was more real?
— Rachel Cusk
I have absolutely no concept of work, except for university. But I like to talk to people a lot about their jobs.
— Rachel Cusk
Honest criticism, I suppose, has its place. But honest writing is infinitely more valuable.
— Rachel Cusk
I absolutely don't dislike children - I would choose their company over adult company any time.
— Rachel Cusk
Yet I still, he said, believe in love. Love restores almost everything, and where it can't restore, it takes away the pain.
— Rachel Cusk
