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Being a mother is complicated because its not just a paternal culture making demands on you its those internal demands and expectations that women have and are self-generated.
Siri Hustvedt
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Siri Hustvedt
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: February 19
Essayist
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Northfield
Minnesota
Premio princesa de Asturias 2019
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Depression is when you think there's nothing to be done. Fortunately I always think there's something to be done.
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Intellectual curiosity about one's own illness is certainly born of a desire for mastery. If I couldn't cure myself, perhaps I could at least begin to understand myself.
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Whenever I sign books, I get this line over and over again from men: I don't read fiction, but my wife does. Would you sign the book to her? What are those men doing there? And where are their wives?
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No matter how brilliant or accomplished they are, there is something emasculating for men in being pitted against a woman. It is even more true in creative fields already considered to be squishy and feminine, and it's a big problem because great women have been left off the record.
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Every painting is always two paintings: The one you see, and the one you remember.
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A book is a collaboration between the one who reads and what is read and, at its best, that coming together is a love story like any other.
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Women really are not supposed to be imaginative. That creativity of this kind is supposed to belong to men. You know, because women make babies. I find the double standards shocking.
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Writing fiction is like remembering what never happened.
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Correlation is not cause, it is just a 'music of chance'.
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Our memory fragments don't have any coherence until they're imagined in words. Time is a property of language, of syntax, and tense.
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