"It was very difficult to write about my……" — Asne Seierstad
"It was very difficult to write about my own country, because I have always been the outsider looking in."
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16 Quotes by Asne Seierstad
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If I leave, reality will devour me. Then they will all really be dead.
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The family is the single most important institution in Afghan culture. It is described in the countrys constitution as the…
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The judgment means a lot. As a journalist being accused of invading someone's privacy, there is always a risk that…
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I will get a loan and pay the money the court asks for. But I will not lay down my…
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If I lose, then I have to accept that my way of writing books is not the way society says…
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If my name had not been cleared, it would have been difficult, perhaps impossible, to continue as a journalist.
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If we can't understand the Afghan family, we can't understand Afghanistan.
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There is nothing I would change - to change it I would have had to write a totally different book.
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When I decided to stay in Iraq, I decided to take the fear out of my body and put it…
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We don't grow up in vacuums. We grow up in societies.
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I'm trying to see my own country with fresh eyes.
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