Rachel Cusk (born 8 Feb 1967) is a UK-based Canadian-born novelist and writer. Read full biography of Rachel Cusk →
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... →
I have a romantic conception of the writer's life, and the sort of writer's life that I admire is probably a childless life, possibly a... →
I think men and women are the same. Even as parents, I think we're the same. We're just conditioned to think that we're different. Having... →
Shame is something you'll find a lot of - particularly Catholic - girls feel about their bodies, about their sexuality, about their diet, about... →
Some people are better at maths than others: no one thinks you can be 'taught' to be a mathematical genius. And no one thinks of teaching, in... →
The anorexic is out to prove how little she needs, how little she can survive on; she is out, in a sense, to discredit her nurturers, while at the... →
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... →
We who were born were not witnesses to our birth: like death, it is something we are forever after trying to catch sight of.
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... →
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... →
Modern morality is all about perception.
Hope is like one of those orchids that grows around toxic waste: lovely in itself - and an assertion, if you like, of indefatigable good - but a sure... →
Like the child, the creative writing student is posited as a centre of vulnerable creativity, needful of attention and authority.
Rachel Cusk (born 8 Feb 1967) is a UK-based Canadian-born novelist and writer.