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It is fascinating to me that when the lists of the great writers are trotted out year after year, you often find lists without a single woman mentioned.
Siri Hustvedt
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Siri Hustvedt
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: February 19
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Northfield
Minnesota
Premio princesa de Asturias 2019
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There is no future without a past, because what is to be cannot be imagined except as a form of repetition.
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The faculty of memory cannot be separated from the imagination. They go hand in hand. To one degree or another, we all invent our personal pasts. And for most of us those pasts are built from emotionally colored memories.
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All human states are organic brain states - happiness, sadness, fear, lust, dreaming, doing math problems and writing novels - and our brains are not static.
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Demonstration of mastery gives a feeling of power and that feeling of power is a good feeling.
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I will turn human anatomy into roses and stars and sea. I will dissect the beloveds body in metaphor.
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We read each other through our eyes, and anatomically they are an extension of our brains. When we catch someone's eye, we look into a mind.
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Human beings are repetitive animals. All meaning is generated through repetition.
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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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Good books, written by men or women, are ones in which you lose consciousness of the person writing the sentences.
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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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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.
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Bedtime rituals for children ease the way to the elsewhere of slumber - teeth brushing and pajamas, the voice of a parent reading, the feel and smell of the old blanket or toy, the nightlight glowing in a corner.
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I think because mothers usually are the people who take care of us when we're little, and when we're little those mothers are omnipotent, perhaps men even more than women don't like to think about that dependency. That dependency is horror.
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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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Pain is always emotional. Fear and depression keep constant company with chronic hurting.
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Dreams are stories made by and for the dreamer, and each dreamer has his own folds to open and knots to untie.
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Not telling is just as interesting as telling I have found. Why speech, that short verbal journey from inside to outside can be excrutiating under certain circumstances is fascinating.
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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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Men generally do not see women as competition.
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Memory is essential to who we are, and memories can be both implicit and explicit - unconscious and conscious.
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