There are certain types of slightly hysterical human characters who, rather than creating, walk around with a sense … - Rachel Cusk

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Randi Weingarten, head of the American Federation of Teachers, calls [Betsy] DeVos the most ideological, anti-public education nominee since the creation of the U. S. Department of Education nearly 40 years ago.

Rachel Cusk

There are certain types of slightly hysterical human characters who, rather than creating, walk around with a sense of their own potential - it's as if they themselves were art objects. They feel as if their lives are written narratives, or pieces of music.

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The 'good' mother, with her fixed smile, her rigidity, her goody-goody outlook, her obsession with unnecessary hygiene, is in fact a fool. It is the 'bad' mother, unafraid of a joke and a glass of wine, richly self-expressive, scornful of suburban values, who is, in reality, good.

Fixed, Good, Mother, Reality, Wine

As writers go, I have a skin of average thickness. I am pleased by a good review, disappointed by a bad. None of it penetrates far enough to influence the thing I write next.

Average, Skin, Skins, Thing, Writers, Writing

As it stands, motherhood is a sort of wilderness through which each woman hacks her way, part martyr, part pioneer; a turn of events from which some women derive feelings of heroism, while others experience a sense of exile from the world they knew.

Being A Mother, Feelings, Motherhood, Sense, Sort, Women

That's writing for you: when you make space for passion, it doesn't turn up.

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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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