Parenting Quotes by Siri Hustvedt

11 Parenting quotes by Siri Hustvedt

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Siri Hustvedt’s literary mind turns inward on parenting in these eleven short pieces. They blend intellectual curiosity with personal nuance, giving a reflective pause for any parent.

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“The truth is that the idea of home and the idea of our mother and father were inseparable.”

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My greatest pleasure is spending time with my family: my husband and daughter, but also my mother, my three sisters, and their…

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“My father once asked me if I knew where yonder was. I said I thought yonder was another word for there. He…

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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…

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My parents were gigantic influences on me. I had a deep hunger to impress my father, who was a professor and an…

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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…

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“Fathers are essentially different from mothers because we were all once in our mother's bodies, are born out of those bodies, and…

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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…

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Sleep resistance, bouts of insomnia, nightmares, night terrors, crawling into bed with parents in the middle of the night - all these…

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“The very idea of a library for me is bound to my mother and father and includes the history of my own…

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I am always suspicious of those who impose 'rules' on child rearing. Every child is different in terms of temperament and learning,…

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“the impersonal and the personal are always connected.”

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When I don't get enough sleep, I am cranky, vulnerable to headaches, and my concentration is poor.

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“Transformation of the self are related to where you are, and identity Is dependent on others.”

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“Looking is part of love, but what you see when you look is anybody's guess.”

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Every sickness has an alien quality, a feeling of invasion and loss of control that is evident in the language we use about it.

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I have a tendency to face my bad fantasies in my books.

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