I remain fascinated by where you go as a woman once you are a mother, and if you ever come back.
Rachel Cusk
I remain fascinated by where ...
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Even if they knew the truth of their own feelings, most mothers would be socially and emotionally incapable of revealing it.
Rachel Cusk
How can there be so many mothers in the world but so little sense of what it might be to become one?
Rachel Cusk
I am a good and interested mother - which has surprised me.
Rachel Cusk
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
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
