“The truth is that the idea of home and the idea of our mother and father were inseparable.” — 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
My parents were gigantic influences on me. I had a deep hunger to impress my father, who was a professor and an… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“My father once asked me if I knew where yonder was. I said I thought yonder was another word for there. He… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
Being a mother is complicated because its not just a paternal culture making demands on you; its those internal demands and expectations… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“The very idea of a library for me is bound to my mother and father and includes the history of my own… — 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
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
I think because mothers usually are the people who take care of us when we're little, and when we're little those mothers… — 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
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
