Rachel Cusk Quotes

When I first had a child, I really had a hard time trying to figure out how it was all going to fit together. Because I felt like, when I was with him, I wanted to be writing and I should be writing. And when I was writing, I felt like I should be with him, and wanted to be with him. So I was unhappy a lot.

Women don't give up things. They don't give up responsibilities. They add new things. They exhaust themselves and still don't give anything up. And. And. And. And. And they do all these other things at the same time, which can be exhausting.

Stay-at-home mums love working mums to feel guilty. They sacrificed everything for their children.

One of the biggest questions to me was whether or not Gypsy the person was capable of loving anyone or anything beyond Gypsy Rose Lee the creation, and even that was a conflicted, tortured relationship.

Jealousy is just love and hate at the same time.

There's a lot of reasons you can think of to say why you act, but I can only say that it just felt good. At the same time, it felt really painful. It's still troubling and stressful to me.

You can still love your job and feel guilty. You can still love your child and feel guilty. There's a lot of grey in that. It's about being conscious when you are spending time with your kids, being with them in the moment.

You cannot be the perfect wife, the perfect mother, and the perfect actor all at the same time.

Women are strong. We can do it all. But not always at the same time.

She hugged me and I could feel the heat rise in my face, either from shame or love, like there was a difference.

Snape is vindictive, he's cruel. He's not a big man. But he loves. I like him, but I'd also like to slap him hard.

You had to hate the Colonel a whole lot to keep from loving him.

We don't stop loving people just because we hate them, but we don't stop hating them either.

I can neither return your love nor dismiss it.

I am very lucky to have a wife who supports me, but the absence from my children was difficult from the moment I took a very difficult decision to have a career which requires so much dedication and focus, just like raising children.

When work ends, I'd rather just be seen as Daniel - normal.

My love affair with painting is bittersweet.

It's a weird dynamic - I guess there is a fine line between hope and sadness. Sometimes you can be feeling both at the same time.

I have the greatest respect for working mothers.

As a mother, you're only allowed to talk about the 'good' moments - not the ones when you've had enough and want to be on your own. Or just want to be a woman, not a mother.

You lose yourself when you first become a mum. It's easy to let yourself go.

Who can love the man he fears. or by who he thinks he is himself feared?

It's because I like you, I don't want to be with you. It's a complicated emotion.

I've no more business to marry Edgar Linton than I have to be in heaven and if the wicked man in there had not brought Heathcliff so low I shouldn't have thought of it. It would degrade me to marry Heathcliff now so he shall never know how I love him and that not because he's handsome Nelly but because he's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of his and mine are the same and Linton's is as different as a moonbeam from lightning or frost from fire.