Asne Seierstad famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

We don't grow up in vacuums. We grow up in societies.
-- Asne Seierstad

#Growing Up #Vacuums #Grows
I'm trying to see my own country with fresh eyes.
-- Asne Seierstad

#Country #Eye #Trying
It was very difficult to write about my own country, because I have always been the outsider looking in.
-- Asne Seierstad

#Country #Writing #Outsiders
We have believing in this innocent feeling of nothing will ever happen to us, because all catastrophes always broad and happening to anyone else.
-- Asne Seierstad

#Believe #Feelings #Innocent
There are personal reasons, psychological reasons, but there could also be political reasons for becoming a terrorist.
-- Asne Seierstad

#Political #Becoming #Psychological
If I leave, reality will devour me. Then they will all really be dead.
-- Asne Seierstad

#Reality
When I decided to stay in Iraq, I decided to take the fear out of my body and put it into a freezer.
-- Asne Seierstad

#Iraq #Body
There is nothing I would change - to change it I would have had to write a totally different book.
-- Asne Seierstad

#Book #Writing #Different
If we can't understand the Afghan family, we can't understand Afghanistan.
-- Asne Seierstad

#Afghanistan
If my name had not been cleared, it would have been difficult, perhaps impossible, to continue as a journalist.
-- Asne Seierstad

#Names #Impossible #Difficult
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.
-- Asne Seierstad

#Book #Writing #Way
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 this was an important book to write.
-- Asne Seierstad

#Book #Writing #Important
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 name.
-- Asne Seierstad

#Mean #Names #Risk
The family is the single most important institution in Afghan culture. It is described in the countrys constitution as the fundamental pillar of society.
-- Asne Seierstad

#Important #Culture #Fundamentals
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 in the other. That's how I went to my first war.
-- Asne Seierstad

#War #Hands #Glasses

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