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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.
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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Many writers over the centuries simply do not have the reputations they deserve because they were female, and that is an act of suppression.
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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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In effect, painting is the still memory of [the artist's] human motion, and our individual responses to it depend on who we are, on our character, which underlines the simple truth that no person leaves himself behind in order to look at a painting.
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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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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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There is this assumption that much of what I write is about my life, and that simply is not true.
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That night as I lay in bed, I thought of several things I could have said and mourned the fact that my wit usually bloomed late, peaking when it no longer mattered, during the solitary hours close to midnight.
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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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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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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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There's a phenomenology of being sick, one that depends on temperament, personal history, and the culture which we live in.
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Writing fiction is like remembering what never happened.
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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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Correlation is not cause, it is just a 'music of chance'.
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We lose ourselves in stories that's the beauty of literary art.
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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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Memory is essential to who we are, and memories can be both implicit and explicit - unconscious and conscious.
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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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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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