Rachel Cusk Quotes About Feelings

Quotes about: Feelings

• The creativity of childhood was often surrendered amid feelings of unworthiness. So the idea that ­others are demanding to be given it back - to be "taught" - is disturbing.

  Rachel Cusk

  Creativity, Ideas, Childhood

  "Can creative writing ever be taught?" by Rachel Cusk, www.theguardian.com. January 29, 2010.

• There is a slovenly disrespect for truth and reality that has infected and cross-infected the arts; the values of entertainment are relentlessly in the ascendant, to the extent that it becomes virtually impossible to write a naturalistic fictional sentence without feeling that the fabric of that sentence is already compromised.

  Rachel Cusk

  Art, Writing, Reality

  "Go Forth (Vol. 34)". Interview with Alice Whitwham, logger.believermag.com. June 17, 2015.

• Even if they knew the truth of their own feelings, most mothers would be socially and emotionally incapable of revealing it.

  Rachel Cusk

  Mother, Feelings, Would Be

• As 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 Cusk

  Motherhood, Feelings, Being A Mother

• 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.

  Rachel Cusk

  Thinking, Catholic, Feelings

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