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Siri Hustvedt Quotes

Far more women read fiction than men, and because of this, novels have become marginalised as serious texts.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: February 19, 1955

Topics

Women Men Serious Become More Far

I was the oldest model in South Africa - I grew up in South Africa, but I was born in Canada - and then when I moved back to Canada, to Toronto, at 42, I was a grandmother doing front covers. I was the oldest model in Canada.

Doing Back Born Canada Grandmother

I'm not interested in characters who aren't broken. I'm not interested in happy people. It just doesn't draw me as a writer.

Broken Happy People Me Just Writer

I'd rather deal with a big company, because at least I can sue them, and see them, and know what they're doing. Google, for instance, shows you everything they've collected on you, with a clearly written privacy policy. They tell you what they're doing with it. I'm not scared by that.

Doing You I Can Privacy Know Google

I come from the kind of family where work is work; my parents always taught me that it's better to be doing something than sitting around doing nothing.

Work Family Parents Me Better Doing

The questions that our society must ask revolve around whether the time-consuming demands of the deep-reading processes will be lost in a culture whose principal mediums advantage speed, multitasking, and processing the next and the next piece of information.

Culture Society Questions Speed Lost

I can consider not only great art, but the context in which that art has been created. I can consider the people who paid a price for that art to be created and whether or not I want to appreciate that art on their backs.

Great Art People Appreciate I Can

What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.

Mignon McLaughlin

You Price Want Become Used Paid

My friends and I have always loved the Neutrogena brand and their ability to help inspire confidence. So when I found out I was actually going to be part of the Neutrogena family, I was really excited.

Miranda Cosgrove

Family Confidence Inspire Loved Help

Kids need to encounter kids like themselves - kids who can sometimes be crabby and fresh and rebellious, kids who talk back and disobey, tell fibs and get into trouble, and are nonetheless still likable and redeemable.

Back Trouble Sometimes Talk Need

When I was first elected to the Colorado State Board of Education in 2000, we had to carry a big binder filled with hundreds of pages to every meeting. By 2004, the State Board had gone paperless. We even persuaded the less-tech-savvy members to use laptops to pull up their information during meetings.

Education Meetings Information First

I cannot tell a joke. But I can do a situation, that it becomes a joke.

Situation I Can Joke Tell Cannot

There's a tendency to dismiss anything having to do with love and intimacy in medicine because it's hard to measure.

Love Medicine Measure Intimacy Hard

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