I think that it's important for people to read philosophy and literature is not because I think everyone should be a well-rounded… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
After years of having immersed myself in science, I do think that if you master several different ways of thinking, it makes… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
under our love making I felt a bleakness that couldnt be dispelled. The sadness was in both of us, and I think… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
Dreaming is another form of thinking, more concrete, more economical, more visual, and often more emotional than the thoughts of the day,… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
Depression is when you think there's nothing to be done. Fortunately I always think there's something to be done. — 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
I remember thinking how easy it is to speak in clichés, to steal a line from pulp fiction and let it fall.… — 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