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• ‟ Feminism remains something that needs to be explained to people.

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• ‟ I'm particularly drawn to actors in their own little drama. I find it's that area I'm very alive to. And I don't encounter it that often. You have to be far from civilization, you have to be far from New York or London to find people who do that.

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• ‟ I have absolutely no concept of work, except for university. But I like to talk to people a lot about their jobs.

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ Some people are better at maths than others: no one thinks you can be 'taught' to be a mathematical genius. And no one thinks of teaching, in that context, as a kind of forcing of the will. But there seems to be an idea of writing as an intuitive pastime which is being dishonestly subjected to counterintuitive methods.

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• ‟ Writing, more than any other art, is indexed to the worthiness of the self because it is identified in people's minds with emotion.

  - Rachel Cusk