Divorce also entails the beginning of a supposition that that familial reality might have obstructed one's ability to perceive others.
Rachel CuskI'm waiting for the day when my children cease to find my domestic propriety reassuring and actually find it annoying.
Rachel CuskA neighbor is something that belongs to the stable world of home life, the thing that lives next door to you.
Rachel CuskLeaving 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 still remain myself.
Rachel CuskAs 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.
Rachel CuskIn 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.
Rachel Cusk