Rachel Cusk (born 8 Feb 1967) is a UK-based Canadian-born novelist and writer. Read full biography of Rachel Cusk →
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... →
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... →
The 'good' mother, with her fixed smile, her rigidity, her goody-goody outlook, her obsession with unnecessary hygiene, is in fact a fool. It... →
Leaving things behind and starting again is a way of coping with difficulties. I learnt very early in my life that I was able to leave a place and... →
Many of the same women who assert their rights at work return to homes and families in which they do far more than their share of cooking, cleaning... →
The distinctive feature of my family was intolerance of sensitivity and emotion - 'Everything's great, it all has to be great all the time... →
A creative writing workshop will contain students whose ambitions and abilities, whose conceptions of literature itself, are so diverse that what... →
I was aware, in those early days of motherhood, that my behaviour was strange to the people who knew me well. It was as though I had been... →
The true self seeks release, not constraint. It doesn't want to be corseted in a sonnet or made to learn a system of musical notations. It wants... →
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... →
An eating disorder epidemic suggests that love and disgust are being jointly marketed, as it were; that wherever the proposition might first have... →
There is always shame in the creation of an expressive work, whether it's a book or a clay pot. Every artist worries about how they will be seen... →
To become a mother is to learn a whole language - to relearn it, perhaps, as it was the tongue to which we were born - and hence gain entrance to a... →
Rachel Cusk (born 8 Feb 1967) is a UK-based Canadian-born novelist and writer.