Rachel Cusk Quotes About Mothers

Quotes about: Mothers

• The 'good' mother, with her fixed smile, her rigidity, her goody-goody outlook, her obsession with unnecessary hygiene, is in fact a fool. It is the 'bad' mother, unafraid of a joke and a glass of wine, richly self-expressive, scornful of suburban values, who is, in reality, good.

  Rachel Cusk

  Mother, Wine, Reality

• To become a mother is to learn a whole language - to relearn it, perhaps, as it was the tongue to which we were born - and hence gain entrance to a forgotten world of comprehension.

  Rachel Cusk

  Mother, World, Tongue

• 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

• How can there be so many mothers in the world but so little sense of what it might be to become one?

  Rachel Cusk

  Mother, World, Littles

• I am a good and interested mother - which has surprised me.

  Rachel Cusk

  Mother

• I remain fascinated by where you go as a woman once you are a mother, and if you ever come back.

  Rachel Cusk

  Mother, Fascinated, Ifs

• The anorexic body is held in the grip of will alone; its meaning is far from stable. What it says - 'Notice me, feed me, mother me' - is not what it means, for such attentions constitute an agonising test of that will, and also threaten to return the body to the dreaded 'normality' it has been such ecstasy to escape.

  Rachel Cusk

  Mother, Mean, Attention

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