Asne Seierstad

The judgment means a lot. As a journalist being accused of invading someone's privacy, there is always a risk that it will…

— Asne Seierstad

I would like my book to give people insight to the war before and after, but I don't think anyone could read…

— Asne Seierstad

If we can't understand the Afghan family, we can't understand Afghanistan.

— Asne Seierstad

The book came after the fall of the Taliban, it says something about Afghan family life. Those kind of stories - what…

— Asne Seierstad

I always try to describe the situation just as it is. I try to find sentences that I believe tell the story…

— Asne Seierstad

“Gerd called life 'existing minute by minute'. Every single minute felt like a battle. Time went on but life had stopped.”

— Åsne Seierstad

The family is the single most important institution in Afghan culture. It is described in the country's constitution as the 'fundamental pillar…

— Asne Seierstad

“Os iraquianos sempre devoraram livros: são o nosso alimento e, além do amor, é a única coisa que necessitamos”

— Asne Seierstad

Even in a war, someone has to take care of daily life. Someone has to feed and clothe the children.

— Asne Seierstad

“They played a game of dare - who could get closest to the flames?”

— Asne Seierstad

As a woman, you accept the situation, adapt to it, and do your best, whereas men would choose violence.

— Asne Seierstad

“Do you know what is our problem? We know everything about our weapons, but we know nothing about how to use a…

— Asne Seierstad

If you've lived in a dictatorship for thirty years, you're used to people lying to you.

— Asne Seierstad

As a war correspondent, you have to weigh the risk you run against the story you can get.

— Asne Seierstad

The family is the single most important institution in Afghan culture. It is described in the countrys constitution as the fundamental pillar…

— Asne Seierstad

There is nothing I would change - to change it I would have had to write a totally different book.

— Asne Seierstad

“To say nothing means to give one's consent.”

— Asne Seierstad

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

— Asne Seierstad

I believe the consequences of a war are so harsh that it should be always the last resort.

— Asne Seierstad

I think when you start to get afraid, it's time to leave.

— Asne Seierstad

“There are many things one can think of when one needs someone to vent one’s wrath on.”

— Asne Seierstad

“War was a central theme in maths books too. School books - because the Taliban printed books soley for boys - did…

— Asne Seierstad

“Anders Behring Breivik was formally charged under paragraph l47 of the Norwegian Penal Code, the so-called terror paragraph, which carries a maximum…

— Åsne Seierstad

It was very difficult to write about my own country, because I have always been the outsider looking in.

— Asne Seierstad

We have believing in this innocent feeling of nothing will ever happen to us, because all catastrophes always broad and happening to…

— Asne Seierstad