"We don't grow up in vacuums. We grow…" — Asne Seierstad

"We don't grow up in vacuums. We grow up in societies."

— Asne Seierstad

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16 Quotes by Asne Seierstad

Asne Seierstad has 16 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

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

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We grow older, but we do not change. We become more sophisticated, but at bottom we continue to resemble our… — Paul Auster
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I just lead my life as naturally, as normally as I possibly can. But I can't help it if controversy… — Amitabh Bachchan
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