Latest Siri Hustvedt Quotes from Interviews

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• Demonstration of mastery gives a feeling of power and that feeling of power is a good feeling.

  Siri Hustvedt

  Giving, Feelings

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• 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.

  Siri Hustvedt

  Mother, Men, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• Depression is when you think there's nothing to be done. Fortunately I always think there's something to be done.

  Siri Hustvedt

  Thinking, Done

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• 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

  Baby, Creativity, Men

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• I think that it's important for people to read philosophy and literature is not because I think everyone should be a well-rounded human being, but because it will help you think better about what you are doing.

  Siri Hustvedt

  Philosophy, Thinking, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• Our brain and our whole nervous system and our whole body are only created in relation to other people and to the environment. So what we have here is an enormously complex notion of both consciousness and unconsciousness. That's why these models get very difficult, because you can't reduce our subjective and intersubjective experience to neural reductions.

  Siri Hustvedt

  People, Brain, Consciousness

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• After years of having immersed myself in science, I do think that if you master several different ways of thinking, it makes your own thought processes more agile.

  Siri Hustvedt

  Thinking, Different

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• We lose ourselves in stories; that's the beauty of literary art.

  Siri Hustvedt

  Art, Stories, Literary Art

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

• I myself have perceived women's actions as more aggressive than I would have in men because I too am walking around with my own biases. The way to fight them is to become conscious of them.

  Siri Hustvedt

  Fighting, Men, Way

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

• Good books, written by men or women, are ones in which you lose consciousness of the person writing the sentences.

  Siri Hustvedt

  Book, Writing, Men

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

• Every one of us is prone to implicit sexual prejudices, including women.

  Siri Hustvedt

  Prejudice, Including, Implicit

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

• 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?

  Siri Hustvedt

  Book, Men, Wife

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

• The old story is true:Women have to be less emotional than men.

  Siri Hustvedt

  Men, Emotional, True Woman

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

• 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

  Years, Lists, Single Women

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

• Many writers over the centuries simply do not have the reputations they deserve because they were female, and that is an act of suppression.

  Siri Hustvedt

  Female, Reputation, Century

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

• 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.

  Siri Hustvedt

  Men, Creative, Matter

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

• Men generally do not see women as competition.

  Siri Hustvedt

  Men, Competition

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com