My children are living, thinking human beings. It isn't in my power to regret them, for they belong to themselves.
Rachel CuskWriting, more than any other art, is indexed to the worthiness of the self because it is identified in peoples minds with emotion.
Rachel CuskThe distinctive feature of my family was intolerance of sensitivity and emotion - everything's great, it all has to be great all the time and why do you have to spoil it? Whereas probably the most fundamental and important thing to me has been defending my right to tell the truth about how I feel.
Rachel Cusk