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.
Rachel CuskLike the child, the creative writing student is posited as a centre of vulnerable creativity, needful of attention and authority.
Rachel CuskA neighbor is something that belongs to the stable world of home life, the thing that lives next door to you.
Rachel CuskWe who were born were not witnesses to our birth: like death, it is something we are forever after trying to catch sight of.
Rachel Cusk