About Rachel Cusk: Rachel Cusk is a Canadian-born novelist and writer who lives and works in the United Kingdom.
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.
The woman who has her being in marriage and motherhood has become part of antithetical reality, revoking property from the woman who remains in a condition of intangible femininity.
I have absolutely no concept of work, except for university. But I like to talk to people a lot about their jobs.
What compromises women - babies, domesticity, mediocrity - compromises writing even more.
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.
