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Rachel Cusk Quotes

A book is not an example of 'women's writing' simply because it is written by a woman. Writing may become 'women's writing' when it could not have been written by a man.

Rachel Cusk

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: canadian
Birth: February 8, 1967

Topics

Women Woman Man Writing Book Become

Everyone wants to be immortal. Few are. Margaret Thatcher is. Why? Because her values are timeless, eternal. Tap anyone on the shoulder anywhere in the world, and ask what Mrs Thatcher believed in, and they will tell you. They can give a clear answer to what she 'stood for.'

Maurice Saatchi

World You Values Why Will She

If you just feel lazy and don't want to cook, then don't cook.

Tom Douglas

Feel You Lazy Want Cook Just

There's nobody I look up to, really.

Rod Stewart

Look Nobody Up Really

I have to say, I haven't really worked with that many people in my career that I haven't liked, which I think is really rare.

Mary-Louise Parker

People Think Career Say Rare Many

I think American Ballet Theatre is setting that standard now for classical ballet, that you can dream big, and it doesn't matter what you look like, where you come from, what your background is.

Misty Copeland

Theatre Think American You Look Now

Very, very few podcasts have made it to scale, and to me, that says this business will never be big.

Jason Calacanis

Business Me Will Never Big Made

We are a big family; we are all very close, and we always want to talk about what is going on with each other.

Javier Hernandez

Family Want Talk Always Big Going

Being 'Johnny' was almost like an out of body experience. I thought he was just a character that I'd created and could quite easily step away from, but it was much more difficult than that.

Johnny Vegas

Character Experience Step Thought

I was in Shanghai recently, where Twitter is blocked, and yet there were ads and billboards across town with hashtags on them.

Dick Costolo

Where Blocked Town Twitter Shanghai

The baseline character in a lot of Western literature is a man. So we, as women, do a lot of suspending of our disbelief to experience a novel or a play or a movie through that male character.

Courtney A. Kemp

Women Character Experience Man Play

Growing up, many of us are taught to place limits on what we can accomplish while on earth. We tend to think of things in binary form: either as possible or, more frequently, impossible.

Clemantine Wamariya

Growing Up Impossible Limits Think

I would hope somebody out there will still want to hear a Backstreet Boys song when I'm 50-something.

Brian Littrell

Hope Song Want Will Out Would