I remain fascinated by where you go as a woman once you are a mother, and if you ever come back.
RACHEL CUSK Human beings have a need, generally, to destroy things. The Freudian principle of civilisation is co...
RACHEL CUSK You could time a suburban story by your watch: it lasts as long as it takes a small furry animal tha...
RACHEL CUSK The distinctive feature of my family was intolerance of sensitivity and emotion - 'Everything...
RACHEL CUSK It's a pretty brutal process, having a baby.
RACHEL CUSK I was aware, in those early days of motherhood, that my behaviour was strange to the people who knew...
RACHEL CUSK I don't go to church any more, but I think that Catholicism is rather like the brand they use on...
RACHEL CUSK It's a taboo that comes back over and over, to suggest that women can feel divided - that you ca...
RACHEL CUSK Leaving things behind and starting again is a way of coping with difficulties. I learnt very early i...
RACHEL CUSK Some people are better at maths than others: no one thinks you can be 'taught' to be a mathe...
RACHEL CUSK Help is dangerous because it exists outside the human economy: the only payment for help is gratitud...
RACHEL CUSK A creative writing workshop will contain students whose ambitions and abilities, whose conceptions o...
RACHEL CUSK I think men and women are the same. Even as parents, I think we're the same. We're just cond...
RACHEL CUSK The woman who thinks she can choose femininity, can toy with it like the social drinker toys with wi...
RACHEL CUSK The 'good' mother, with her fixed smile, her rigidity, her goody-goody outlook, her obsessio...
RACHEL CUSK Like the child, the creative writing student is posited as a centre of vulnerable creativity, needfu...
RACHEL CUSK There is always shame in the creation of an expressive work, whether it's a book or a clay pot. ...
RACHEL CUSK The true self seeks release, not constraint. It doesn't want to be corseted in a sonnet or made ...
RACHEL CUSK There is always shame in the creation of an object for the public gaze.
RACHEL CUSK Society in the English countryside is still strangely, quaintly divided. If black comedy and a certa...
RACHEL CUSK In memoir, you have to be particularly careful not to alienate the reader by making the material see...
RACHEL CUSK As it stands, motherhood is a sort of wilderness through which each woman hacks her way, part martyr...
RACHEL CUSK I have no sense of a model or predecessor when I write a memoir: For me, the form exists as a method...
RACHEL CUSK For years I had lived in my body half-consciously, ignoring it mostly, dismissing its agendas wherev...
RACHEL CUSK We who were born were not witnesses to our birth: like death, it is something we are forever after t...
RACHEL CUSK I have a romantic conception of the writer's life, and the sort of writer's life that I admi...
RACHEL CUSK The anorexic body is held in the grip of will alone; its meaning is far from stable. What it says - ...
RACHEL CUSK Hope is like one of those orchids that grows around toxic waste: lovely in itself - and an assertion...
RACHEL CUSK The anorexic is out to prove how little she needs, how little she can survive on; she is out, in a s...
RACHEL CUSK I don't think I knew that you could be a novelist. I think a lot of my students are in the same ...
RACHEL CUSK In domestic life, the woman's value is inherent, unquantifiable; at home she exchanges proven va...
RACHEL CUSK What I increasingly felt, in marriage and in motherhood, was that to live as a woman and to live as ...
RACHEL CUSK If I know somebody is coming 'round, it is incredibly difficult for me to work because I'm w...
RACHEL CUSK It is expected that a children's story will raise a difficulty and then resolve it: increasingly...
RACHEL CUSK I'm waiting for the day when my children cease to find my domestic propriety reassuring and actu...
RACHEL CUSK The old world of England was picturesque and safe in a way that L.A. wasn't, but it was so amazi...
RACHEL CUSK Writing, more than any other art, is indexed to the worthiness of the self because it is identified ...
RACHEL CUSK To observe is not to not feel—in fact, it is to put yourself at the mercy of feeling, like the chi...
RACHEL CUSK That's double-edged: it's amazing that they're bringing me in and showing people new ide...
RACHEL TRUE I feel like a lot of serious music lives in generalizations - 'Love is a flower,' 'The s...
RACHEL BLOOM The late Seventies was the death of the manufacturing age in the United States. It was also a time w...
RACHEL KUSHNER I started styling people when I was just eight years old, without even knowing what a stylist was.
RACHEL ZOE If my client calls me and says, 'I'm going to a friend's premiere,' I'll say, &#...
RACHEL ZOE I'm not normally the kind of person who holds on to grudges, I'm really not.
RACHEL STEVENS I think for anyone - male or female - in improv, the biggest thing to get over is the fear. I think ...
RACHEL DRATCH I am pro-choice, but I don't consider that inconsistent at all with pro-life - there's no wa...
RACHEL SKLAR I would do fragrance. I'm a fragrance fanatic.
RACHEL ZOE It's really unfair to working women in America who read celebrity news and think, 'Why can&#...
RACHEL ZOE As far as I can remember, every dime I ever had went to something extravagant. I would rather spend ...
RACHEL ZOE The constant in all the businesses I've become a part of is taking what I do and making it real ...
RACHEL ZOE I don't come from a family of slackers, but I do come from a family of doers.
RACHEL ZOE People tell you everything changes when you have a kid, but what nobody says is you don't mind.
RACHEL ZOE I think in spring, we don't want to wear makeup, we don't want to wear a ton of clothes, we ...
RACHEL ZOE As great as it is, 'Vogue' won't change a designer's business. But if an unknown bra...
RACHEL ZOE The thing that I really look for in people is enthusiasm and excitement and, not to sound really sap...
RACHEL ZOE Everyone wants to be a stylist. If you know that's your calling, then you need to intern as much...
RACHEL ZOE I always say that I don't like it when people follow trends too much, just because it is on the ...
RACHEL ZOE When you look like you stepped out of a catalog, that's never good. People shouldn't succumb...
RACHEL ZOE I think that sexiness should be in the subtleties.
RACHEL ZOE I think people should look cute all the time.
RACHEL ZOE I don't think that people should wear dresses two sizes too small. I just think that sexiness is...
RACHEL ZOE Sexiness should not be overt. Something shapeless that drapes across your hip, hangs off the shoulde...
RACHEL ZOE I love Fall Fashion Week because it means lots of layering, long sweaters and vintage coats.
RACHEL ZOE I believe fantasy and dreaming can be made a reality. You don't have to be rich. You don't h...
RACHEL ZOE I think what you wear really does need to reflect what your own personal style is.
RACHEL ZOE Hair is a huge part of who I am and what I obsess over - I've had long hair my entire life.
RACHEL ZOE I think I'm very curious about other people. I like to sit and eavesdrop, you know.
RACHEL WEISZ The thing is, you choose to be an actress, but not to be a celebrity.
RACHEL WEISZ That was me under the bath and the water being held down. The director wanted it to look as real as ...
RACHEL WEISZ L.A. makes you feel ugly.
RACHEL WEISZ It's also that comedians don't have the kind of narcissism that actors have. They're wri...
RACHEL WEISZ In L.A., unless you've just won an Oscar or you're Mr. Studio Head, no one talks to you. Eve...
RACHEL WEISZ If I went out in killer heels and full makeup, blow dry, the whole thing - anyone dressed up like th...
RACHEL WEISZ I've always been fascinated by activists, people who will devote their life to a cause, people w...
RACHEL WEISZ I prefer being as far from the centre of celebrity as possible.
RACHEL WEISZ I have absolutely no empathy for camels. I didn't care for being abused in the Middle East by th...
RACHEL WEISZ I find Hollywood really toxic.
RACHEL WEISZ I do read movie blogs. I think what's really interesting - Probably everyone says this, but what...
RACHEL WEISZ You have your real life and then you have your work.
RACHEL WEISZ I'm very drawn to characters who are very flawed. I'm less interested in characters who are ...
RACHEL WEISZ The happiest days of my youth were when my brother and I would run through the woods and feel quite ...
RACHEL WEISZ It is a political thriller. It's very action packed and it's very exciting, but at the same ...
RACHEL WEISZ My real fantasy if I was to drop out would be to live in a mobile home and be a hippie and drive aro...
RACHEL WEISZ Botox should be banned for actors, as steroids are for sportsmen. Acting is all about expression; wh...
RACHEL WEISZ There's not much room for eccentricity in Hollywood, and eccentricity is what's sexy in peop...
RACHEL WEISZ The older you get the more capable you get at managing life.
RACHEL WEISZ As a child I was the best tree climber in our neighbourhood, I was like a little monkey. I've ne...
RACHEL WEISZ I didn't think the teachers had the right to tell me what to do. I would just disobey, talk in t...
RACHEL WEISZ I'm slightly unsure as to what my goal is. I just keep doing jobs.
RACHEL WEISZ You would never say to a man, 'do you like playing strong men?' You just wouldn't say th...
RACHEL WEISZ People still kill in the name of religion. We haven't evolved to the point where we're one t...
RACHEL WEISZ I'm a storyteller, I'm an actor, an entertainer.
RACHEL WEISZ Writers are very much undervalued in the creative process.
RACHEL WARD I've been as critically rubbished as acclaimed and the worst thing about that is that it usually...
RACHEL WARD I got pigeonholed a bit. When I wanted to be an actress, I never wanted to be the kind of actress I ...
RACHEL WARD When I wanted to be an actress, I never wanted really to be the kind of actress I became.
RACHEL WARD All anything takes, really, is confidence.
RACHEL WARD There's very little bohemia in Australia and it's one of the things I miss most about not li...
RACHEL WARD Having done something like The Thorn Birds gives you enormous longevity. You can keep picking and ch...
RACHEL WARD You're in a movie because you're appealing and because you represent the aspiration, the fan...
RACHEL WARD I remember having to take detours around the Hollywood sign to avoid having to see this grotesque po...
RACHEL WARD It had to be a book that held my attention and kept me wanting to read it; when my husband finished ...
RACHEL TUCKER When I was in the running for the role of Elphaba, I knew it was important to research and study as ...
RACHEL TUCKER 'We Will Rock You' is one of my favorite shows. I first saw it when I was a student at the R...
RACHEL TUCKER We lived in Manhattan, which was unbearable sometimes because it was so noisy. There were sirens bla...
RACHEL TUCKER Living in New York for 10 months was incredible; it was everything I thought it was going to be and ...
RACHEL TUCKER I like surprising my audiences, and it's compulsory to have fun and be silly; I never take mysel...
RACHEL TUCKER If I thought about it before I went on, I would have never went on. So, therefore, you don't thi...
RACHEL TUCKER I did a reality TV show in London called 'I'd Do Anything,' and when I got put in the pr...
RACHEL TUCKER I'd been brought up on musicals. Instead of cartoons, we watched videocassettes of musicals at h...
RACHEL TUCKER I can be very ordinary looking.
RACHEL TUCKER I pride myself on not being run of the mill. I don't want to be your umpteenth Fantine in 'L...
RACHEL TUCKER We used to have front-row seats for the Grand Opera House pantomime every year, and once the dame Ma...
RACHEL TUCKER It's such a relief to see Catholic and Protestant ministers getting on - that's so rare. And...
RACHEL TUCKER When my dad, Tommy Tucker Kelly, was about six, he started out with his dad on 'The Black and Wh...
RACHEL TUCKER Sting is a father figure to us all.
RACHEL TUCKER I am glad and thankful that my husband forced me to start reading for pleasure, as it took me years ...
RACHEL TUCKER My mum was no pushy parent. She would drop me off for auditions when I was in my teens at the Lyric ...
RACHEL TUCKER 'The Last Ship,' which is a beautifully written piece, is about a love triangle and young me...
RACHEL TUCKER Green is one of my favorite colors - emerald green.
RACHEL TUCKER I read books for exams at school, but only because I had to read them, and really didn't enjoy i...
RACHEL TUCKER As far as developing a career as an actress, I think it's a fine balance between trying to just ...
RACHEL TRUE Which is why I felt I was truly blessed this year, with leads in two nice films, and also the luxury...
RACHEL TRUE So now I feel I'm lucky in the respect that I can sort of pick a little more carefully, which is...
RACHEL TRUE If you're fortunate enough, you get to a position where you can be a little pickier about your r...
RACHEL TRUE When you work on a movie, you just have no idea how it's going to come out; you hope it's go...
RACHEL TRUE Even befor doing this film, I've always been interested in mythology.
RACHEL TRUE For six months I'd do movies and make it all about me. Then the other six months, it's not a...
RACHEL TRUE I'm actually developing a project so that I can have a lead.
RACHEL TRUE Which is not to discount everything I've done in my past; everything I have learned tremendously...
RACHEL TRUE And I can relate to that, because I went to an all white school, so I knew what that was like. And i...
RACHEL TRUE In the end, I play a lot of friends and I really think it's about time that some ethnic girls ge...
RACHEL TRUE I don't think I'm a follower, frankly.
RACHEL TRUE Sometimes I wonder why I'm not working at McDonald's and how come I have the life I have. I ...
RACHEL TRUE We filmed one scene on the beach and there was definitely weird energy around, and we were followed ...
RACHEL TRUE Editing is a natural extension of the collage making. It's actually one of the few areas that wo...
RACHEL TRUE I like to make collages - paper collages.
RACHEL TRUE My mother's Puerto Rican and my father's Russian-Jewish, so we consider ourselves to be Jewr...
RACHEL TICOTIN If you care about yourself and what you do, you get nervous about it. You just don't take the mo...
RACHEL TICOTIN I'm more interested in my life than I am in my career. I don't want to not work. I do enjoy ...
RACHEL TICOTIN Oh. Yes. There. Is. A. Lot of pressure. As a solo singer. Absolutely.
RACHEL STEVENS My personal trainer is an ex-dancer so we do a lot of ballet and jazz.
RACHEL STEVENS I'm so programmed to getting up early that I like to make the most of the day.
RACHEL STEVENS Feeling comfortable in my own skin has never been easy for me.
RACHEL STEVENS I never felt popular as a child and never had best friends.
RACHEL STEVENS I really do feel now that the way I dress onstage and for work is a true reflection of my own sense ...
RACHEL STEVENS I think it's certainly natural to try new things as you grow up and get older!
RACHEL STEVENS I'd love to break America, like all artists do. It's a lot of work but, you know, it's g...
RACHEL STEVENS In S Club I played a role in a band, but now I can go off and be me - My horizon's wide open now...
RACHEL STEVENS Songs like Reach and S Club Party are pop classics. I'm really proud that I had a part in them.
RACHEL STEVENS I would love to work with someone like Kevin Spacey as he could pass on what I need to learn.
RACHEL STEVENS It's not what you wear it's how you wear it, is what I say.
RACHEL STEVENS Being able to laugh is sexy in a man or woman.
RACHEL STEVENS I'd rather stay out of the limelight until I've done something I feel proud of.
RACHEL STEVENS I never really hated any particular sport but out of all the sports, I used to prefer the team games...
RACHEL STEVENS When people recognise me they just kind of go 'Hi how are you,' really kind of cool you know...
RACHEL STEVENS I'm a cereal girl. I have always loved my cereal ever since I was a kid.
RACHEL STEVENS I can be very passionate but I also have a bit of a hot temper - when pushed.
RACHEL STEVENS I am really passionate about my career and my music and I am so lucky to be able to do what I do for...
RACHEL STEVENS A lot of my childhood memories involve walking home in floods of tears. At that age, feeling unpopul...
RACHEL STEVENS Be true to yourself and go with your instincts - don't be somebody you're not just to fit in...
RACHEL STEVENS I know it sounds a bit corny, but I do think that beauty and sexiness come from within.
RACHEL STEVENS Having a bad haircut can be quite traumatic!
RACHEL STEVENS I took a job at a white-shoe NYC law firm, with an office, business cards, and a fat starter paychec...
RACHEL SKLAR I didn't go to law school to become a lawyer, per se - let's just say I was leaning in to so...
RACHEL SKLAR As a matter of personal philosophy, I have generally said, 'Why not?' far more often than ei...
RACHEL SKLAR I am attached to my Blackberry. Sometimes, when I'm holding it, my other hand goes to my pocket ...
RACHEL SKLAR 'The Crumbling of America' should be required viewing for local and national government, not...
RACHEL SKLAR For video clips, you can always assume that there is a creative component since you are literally de...
RACHEL SKLAR 'Sesame Street' is awesome - not only because they teach, edify and entertain kids but becau...
RACHEL SKLAR There's a tendency, when the offspring of a famous person does something notable, to define them...
RACHEL SKLAR Less than two weeks before my 34th birthday, I bought pots. Most people were amazed that I did not p...
RACHEL SKLAR My weekends are oases of time and space, where I am able to draw a breath and dive into the stuff I ...
RACHEL SKLAR Women as a raw demographic unit exercise incredible power across every element of American life.
RACHEL SKLAR I feel lucky every day. But I can also trace that luck back to decisions I have made. Frequently, th...
RACHEL SKLAR I am not an 'unplug' person. I like being plugged in.
RACHEL SKLAR While I know that Twitter is doing just fine with or without my 140-character contributions, I also ...
RACHEL SKLAR Twitter is an amazing public tool with an incredible capacity for public good.
RACHEL SKLAR Flying over New Orleans on our approach, I got it. There was no view of land without water - water i...
RACHEL SKLAR In 2014, having children is complicated and daunting and fraught - as much as it's always been, ...
RACHEL SKLAR When I go a stretch without tweeting, I will occasionally get an email from my mom, checking in. I a...
RACHEL SKLAR We live in a world now where everything is tweeted and Instagrammed and tagged and now, God help us,...
RACHEL SKLAR I'm Jewish, but not overly religious, and have certainly never formally observed the Fourth Comm...
RACHEL SKLAR The best jokes resonate because they uncover ridiculousness in our daily lives, reveal the silliness...
RACHEL SKLAR Good advice is just watch what you say on Facebook, on Twitter, on social networks because being sue...
RACHEL SKLAR Law school and summer camp are the two experiences that inform pretty much all I do.
RACHEL SKLAR I always like to look at things and think, 'Would I be proud to bring my grandma and grandpa to ...
RACHEL SKARSTEN Every reality show plot pales in comparison to our history.
RACHEL SKARSTEN The special thing about 'Lost Girl' is it can be campy at times, but the show doesn't ta...
RACHEL SKARSTEN Normally, learning lines is fairly easy for me, but when you add an accent onto that, it adds a comp...
RACHEL SKARSTEN I'm no stranger to joining a show in the third season. I joined 'Lost Girl' at the same ...
RACHEL SKARSTEN I've been through periods where I haven't worked and would have paid someone to give me a jo...
RACHEL SKARSTEN While I deeply admire actors who deeply prepare, it's just not something I do.
RACHEL SKARSTEN There is no such thing as women's intuition. You all just have crap poker faces.
RACHEL SHELLEY I do have a fantasy piece of technology that would do my food shopping for me, and if you wanted to,...
RACHEL SHELLEY I've always been Mac, so I guess I always will be. I can't imagine I will change now.
RACHEL SHELLEY Yes I am definitely an 'Orange is the New Black' fan... Not an obsessive, but a fan none the...
RACHEL SHELLEY We constantly abuse and defend a woman's prerogative to change her mind.
RACHEL SHELLEY I'm not big on technology; I only get what I need.
RACHEL SHELLEY I endeavour to read more, be more informed on gay rights. Whatever floats your boat is my outlook. I...
RACHEL SHELLEY