As one of four daughters, I grew up with an imaginary brother - wondering what it would have been like if one… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
I have suffered from migraines since childhood and have long been curious about my own aching head, my dizziness, my divine lifting… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
My greatest pleasure is spending time with my family: my husband and daughter, but also my mother, my three sisters, and their… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
Bedtime rituals for children ease the way to the elsewhere of slumber - teeth brushing and pajamas, the voice of a parent… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
I am always suspicious of those who impose 'rules' on child rearing. Every child is different in terms of temperament and learning,… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“Despite the fact that he fathered ten children, Dickens, the write, never gave up his position as a child. He identified with… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“On the playground, children used to sing the chorus "Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me."… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
Sleep resistance, bouts of insomnia, nightmares, night terrors, crawling into bed with parents in the middle of the night - all these… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“It may be that I link every library to that first one - to my early childhood experience of drawing on the… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“A child's true independence is the product of a strong, reassuring parental presence, and it is that presence that we take with… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
There is no reason we should expect young children to enter the nocturnal darkness of sleep and dreams without help. — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
Having children is one of the most passionate and involving bits of business in human life. — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
Children are not in a position to assess risk and safety; it must be done for them, and it must be done… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“Fathers are essentially different from mothers because we were all once in our mother's bodies, are born out of those bodies, and… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“Through them, I was able to make a turn in myself, and somehow that view from the window seen alone and at… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
I am married to a writer, and this - writing - is an odd enterprise. It's something we both support very strongly. — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
With almost no exceptions, art by men is much more expensive than art by women. Even great women artists, like Louise Bourgeois and Lee… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
I love the little garden in the back of my family's brownstone in Brooklyn. Digging out there in the dirt is a joy for… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
I watched 'Holiday' in college, and that was when I had my first fantasy of being Katharine Hepburn, standing at the top of the… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
When I don't get enough sleep, I am cranky, vulnerable to headaches, and my concentration is poor. — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“Transformation of the self are related to where you are, and identity Is dependent on others.” — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
There's a phenomenology of being sick, one that depends on temperament, personal history, and the culture which we live in. — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
The faculty of memory cannot be separated from the imagination. They go hand in hand. To one degree or another, we all invent our… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“Looking is part of love, but what you see when you look is anybody's guess.” — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
Every sickness has an alien quality, a feeling of invasion and loss of control that is evident in the language we use about it. — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
