Rachel Cusk
Rachel Cusk
Rachel Cusk is a Canadian-born novelist and writer who lives and works in the United Kingdom...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionNovelist
CountryCanada
passion writing space
That's writing for you: when you make space for passion, it doesn't turn up.
motherhood feelings being-a-mother
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.
divorce reality might
Divorce also entails the beginning of a supposition that that familial reality might have obstructed one's ability to perceive others.
lonely children reading
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.
motherhood two feminist
What I increasingly felt, in marriage and in motherhood, was that to live as a woman and to live as a feminist were two different and possibly irreconcilable things.
parent made british
The British have always made terrible parents.
encouragement winning needs
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.
christianity century
Christianity has kept itself going for centuries on hope alone, and has perpetrated all manner of naughtiness in the meantime.
childhood curiosity states
Childhood, after all, is not an ending, but rather a state full of potent curiosity.
epidemics eating-disorder body
An eating disorder epidemic suggests that love and disgust are being jointly marketed, as it were; that wherever the proposition might first have come from, the unacceptability of the female body has been disseminated culturally.
new-relationship may facts
Parenthood, like death, is an event for which it is nearly impossible to be prepared. It brings you into a new relationship with the fact of your own existence, a relationship in which one may be rendered helpless.
wine thinking fake
The woman who thinks she can choose femininity, can toy with it like the social drinker toys with wine - well, she's asking for it, asking to be undone, devoured, asking to spend her life perpetrating a new fraud, manufacturing a new fake identity, only this time it's her equality that's fake.
perception morality modern
Modern morality is all about perception.
novelists scientist social
I'm a novelist, not a social scientist or a commentator.