Rachel Cusk Quotes About Motherhood

Quotes about: Motherhood

• 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 was aware, in those early days of motherhood, that my behaviour was strange to the people who knew me well. It was as though I had been brainwashed, taken over by a cult religion. And yet this cult, motherhood, was not a place where I could actually live. Like any cult, it demanded a complete surrender of identity to belong to it.

  Rachel Cusk

  Taken, Motherhood, People

• 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 Cusk

  Motherhood, Two, Feminist

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