Rachel Quotes

I'm waiting for the day when my children cease to find my domestic propriety reassuring and actually find it annoying.

I have absolutely no concept of work, except for university. But I like to talk to people a lot about their jobs.

Having your second child, in case you were wondering, is a lot harder than having your first, except for those people who find it easier. I'm afraid I don't have the latest figures to confirm this.

Human beings have a need, generally, to destroy things. The Freudian principle of civilisation is correct. There's always, always a difference between the family image and the reality.

I'm a novelist, not a social scientist or a commentator.

The writing you allude to is a form of dissent, but it's also expressive of the need to evolve beyond what is turgid and stale in contemporary fiction.

Divorce also entails the beginning of a supposition that that familial reality might have obstructed one's ability to perceive others.

A neighbor is something that belongs to the stable world of home life, the thing that lives next door to you.

I suppose, I said, it is one definition of love, the belief in something that only the two of you can see.

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.

Christianity has kept itself going for centuries on hope alone, and has perpetrated all manner of naughtiness in the meantime.

A feminist man is a bit like a vegetarian: it's the humanitarian principle he's defending, I suppose.

I think a lot of artists no longer want to participate in or be associated with narrative because of its corruptedness in contemporary culture.

Every time I write a book, I've probably taken five years off my life.

Modern morality is all about perception.

We who were born were not witnesses to our birth: like death, it is something we are forever after trying to catch sight of.

What other grown-up gets told how to do their job so often as a writer?

It is living, not thinking, as a feminist that has become the challenge.

It's a pretty brutal process, having a baby.

I absolutely don't dislike children - I would choose their company over adult company any time.

I am a good and interested mother - which has surprised me.

The British have always made terrible parents.

Feminism remains something that needs to be explained to people.

Like the child, the creative writing student is posited as a centre of vulnerable creativity, needful of attention and authority.

I stand by my work on behalf of the citizens of Spokane to further justice and promote civilian oversight of law enforcement.

Overall, my life has been one of survival and the decisions that I have made along the way, including my identification, have been to survive.

Many comedians have a dark side that lets them take a negative thing and turn it funny.

If it gets laughs, it’s funny.

If you have an impulse, not if you're going to ruin someone elses' scene, if you have an impulse of a funny little add-on or taking something in a weird direction, try it.

The people, they are the ones with the real answers.

I know a lot of girls in the comedy world who are kind of like me. I don't know where the slutty girls hang out, but it's not the comedy world as far as I know.

Since I was little, it was instilled in me to conserve water. In terms of what can you do as an individual, it's an easy issue to get behind.

When I was a kid, I was super shy.

I did some acting in high school, I knew I really liked it.

I didn't consider myself a huge baby person. I'm not like, "Oh my god! I want to hold every baby!" And some women just have that engraved in their minds.

I could see myself in some sort of pioneer bonnet, it's my childhood fantasy. But, I think I look too jewish for the prairie.

I also didn't consider myself a huge baby person.

I didn't originally intend on writing a book. I started writing during the day to feel like I was accomplishing something creative.

In real life, I'm gorgeous, beautiful.

The first time we put Debbie Downer on the show, I had a giggle fit that I couldn't control, and the whole cast ended up breaking so hard we could never quite recover.

I started doing improv in college, and I really liked it.

I never wanted to be that person who leaves 'SNL' and nothing happens.

I had always wanted to be on SNL, it's not always great, but it's this leftover childhood dream.

I don't really consider myself an impressionist.

You know the public is more easily swayed by persons than by principles.

There's plenty of fire in the coldest flint!

I was never one to begrudge people their memories. From a child I would listen when they spoke of the past.

There was no reality to pain when it left one, though while it held one fast all other realities faded.

no matter how hard and faithfully we may try we can never compensate another for some lack in his or her life.

The difference between ambition and discontent is quite a fine line and sometimes it is hard to tell which is which and which you are feeling!