Rachel Cusk's Books Are Like Pop-up Volumes

Blakes Hotel In South Kensington Was A Particular Favourite Of Mine During What I Affectionately Think Of As My Restless Years.

What Sort Of Sap Doesn't Know By Now That Picture-perfect Beauty Is All Done With Smoke And Mirrors Anyway?

These Women Whose Antics We Smirk At Good-naturedly In The Pap-traps Put Themselves Out There At Least Partly On Their Beauty; They Are In Showbiz, And Showing What They've Got Is Part Of Their Business As Much As It Is For Male Show-ponies From The Chippendales To George Clooney.

I Have Experienced Jealousy, Possessiveness, Verbal Abuse And Violence From Men, But I Have Also Experienced Jealousy, Possessiveness, Verbal Abuse And Violence From Women, Usually When I Failed To Respond To Their Advances.

I Am Firmly Of The Opinion That Women Who Make A Lot Of Effort To Hang Onto Their Looks In Middle Age (unless They Are Beauties, Entertainers Or Prostitutes) Are Rather Sad, As One Should Surely Have Something More Substantial To Recommend One By This Time, Such As Kindness Or Cleverness.