Rachel Cusk Quotes

Before I was a mother, when I played characters that were mothers, I used my imagination, of course.

I hope, what I hope the most is to be more successful as a mother than in show business, because to be a mother is the most difficult I will ever have to do.

I love motherhood. I certainly wasn't aware of any mothering instincts until I had babies. I wasn't a person who desperately wanted to have kids, but you don't get it until you do it, and, suddenly, this nurturing instinct exists.

You think you know what love is - until you have a child and discover that unconditional mother love.

Being a mother was too important to me to risk running out of time.

I know that is what I was put on Earth to do - to be a mother.

I think birth and motherhood are not things that you're trained to do. You might have a good example in your own mum, but nobody teaches you how to be a really great mum.

I was a perfect mother.

I took being a mom very seriously.

A father may turn his back on his child, … . but a mother's love endures through all.

It is a fundamental truth that the responsibilities of motherhood cannot be successfully delegated. No, not to day-care centers, not to schools, not to nurseries, not to babysitters.

I never turned down a mother role.

I love being a mum, but it's much more intensive work than being an actress - going to work feels like you've got a day off. Not that I want a day off from being a mum; it's just perhaps I had this impression before that mums don't work. But they work more than anyone.

I think being a parent is the most challenging thing you do. That's why we're here. It's at the heart of what it is to be a human being. It's the ultimate experience because it questions everything about who you are. But it's difficult.

He didn't come out of my belly, but my God, I've made his bones, because I've attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I'm so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride.

Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.

Mothers - especially single mothers - are heroic in their efforts to raise our nation's children, but men must also take responsibility for their children and recognize the impact they have on their families' well-being.

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.

I want my kids to see me as Dad, for God's sake, not a television personality.

In my experience (I am the lone father of an eight-year-old boy who lost his mother when he was one year old), parenting is the most difficult of all jobs: forget your chief executives, editors, prime ministers and the like - parenting is far more challenging.

Mothers play an important role as the heart of the home, but this in no way lessens the equally important role fathers should play, as head of the home, in nurturing, training, and loving their children.

I have friends who say, 'You just can't understand what it's like to be a mother until you're a mother.'

Being a mother adds another emotional dimension, a feel for children that I didn't have before I had one. They were a pain before.

I think motherhood is just about instinct.

Because I am a mother, I am capable of being shocked: as I never was when I was not one.