It is fascinating to me that when the lists of the great writers are trotted out year after … - Siri Hustvedt

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Once there was a darkness, a deep and endless night, you gave me everything you had and oh, you gave me light

Siri Hustvedt

It is fascinating to me that when the lists of the great writers are trotted out year after year, you often find lists without a single woman mentioned.

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There is this assumption that much of what I write is about my life, and that simply is not true.

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Bedtime rituals for children ease the way to the elsewhere of slumber - teeth brushing and pajamas, the voice of a parent reading, the feel and smell of the old blanket or toy, the nightlight glowing in a corner.

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Memory is essential to who we are, and memories can be both implicit and explicit - unconscious and conscious.

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The old story is true:Women have to be less emotional than men.

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That night as I lay in bed, I thought of several things I could have said and mourned the fact that my wit usually bloomed late, peaking when it no longer mattered, during the solitary hours close to midnight.

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If, in your relationship with the Lord, you do not feel that He loves you tenderly, you are missing something, you still have not understood what grace is, you have not yet received grace which is this closeness.

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I think the idea that in a riddle there are two answers or two doors and that you have to pick the right one is almost sort of delightful to kids who are making so many choices every day and who often don't know for a while if they've made the right one. It's not as if you make a choice and then *ding* you have some sense of "oh, this is perfect and I'm happy" - it's never that simple.

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