Asne Seierstad Quotes

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• 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 fundamental pillar of society.
• The judgment means a lot. As a journalist being accused of invading someone's privacy, there is always a risk that it will stick to your…
• I will get a loan and pay the money the court asks for. But I will not lay down my writing and I still say…
• If I lose, then I have to accept that my way of writing books is not the way society says it's okay to write.
• 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 into a freezer.
• As the only woman, I was able to sit with the officers in front, with a glass of vodka in one hand and a cucumber…
• We don't grow up in vacuums. We grow up in societies.
• 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.
• We have believing in this innocent feeling of nothing will ever happen to us, because all catastrophes always broad and happening to anyone else.
• There are personal reasons, psychological reasons, but there could also be political reasons for becoming a terrorist.
• The book came after the fall of the Taliban, it says something about Afghan family life. Those kind of stories - what happens behind the…

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