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Rachel Cusk, born in 1967, is a distinguished British novelist. Her works are renowned for their unique narrative style and profound insights into modern life. Cusk's writing spans a range of themes including personal experience, family relationships, and social change, and has garnered widespread acclaim from readers.

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“I think a lot of artists no longer want to participate in or be associated with narrative because of its corruptedness in contemporary culture.”

Thinking Want Artist Culture Contemporary Narrative

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“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 undone, devoured, asking to spend her life perpetrating a new fraud, manufacturing a new fake identity, only this time it's her equality that's fake.”

Thinking Wells Social Identity Asking Wine Fake Fraud Toys Femininity Manufacturing Undone Drinkers New Toys

Book:Aftermath: On Marriage and Separation

Source: Aftermath: On Marriage and Separation

“It is living, not thinking, as a feminist that has become the challenge.”

Thinking Inspirational Motivational Challenges Feminist

Author:Rachel Cusk

“I don't go to church any more, but I think that Catholicism is rather like the brand they use on cattle: I feel so formed in that Catholic mould that I don't think I could adopt any other form of spirituality. I still get feelings of consolation about churches.”

Thinking Feels Stills Use Feelings Form Spirituality Church Catholic Brands Catholicism Consolation Cattle Mould

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“Society in the English countryside is still strangely, quaintly divided. If black comedy and a certain type of social commentary are what you want, I think English rural communities offer quite a lot of material.”

Ifs Thinking Want Stills Certain Social Black Community Comedy Materials Type Offers What You Want Divided Commentary Countryside Black Comedy Rural Communities English Countryside

Author:Rachel Cusk

“My children are living, thinking human beings. It isn't in my power to regret them, for they belong to themselves.”

Thinking Humans Children Human Beings Regret My Children

Author:Rachel Cusk

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Born: 1967
Known for: Novelist
Quotes: 114

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