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“For many women,’ she said, ‘having a child is their central experience of creativity, and yet the child will never remain a created object; unless,’ she said, ‘the mother’s sacrifice of herself is absolute, which mine never could have been, and which no woman’s ought to be these days.”
― Rachel Cusk, Outline

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“There was a great difference, I said, between the things I wanted and the things I could apparently have, and until I had finally and forever made my peace with that fact, I had decided to want nothing at all.”
― Rachel Cusk, Outline

“People are least aware of others when demonstrating their own power over them.”
― Rachel Cusk, Outline