Ibsen was Norwegian by birth, but universal in spirit.

I can't expect people to decide that they will change with me, so I can see why I'm on the old side.

We are different. We are equal in every way but our voices are important to each other and our need to want to listen to each other and try to understand, because sometimes we are so difficult to understand. Men to understand us, and we to understand men. And we don't. We don't connect the way we should.

The best thing that can come with success is the knowledge that it is nothing to long for.

Soon I will be an old, white-haired lady, into whose lap someone places a baby, saying, "Smile, Grandma!" - I, who myself so recently was photographed on my grandmother's lap.

The void Papa's death left in me became a kind of cavity, into which later experiences were to be laid.

I consider myself a realist who wants to stand up for women's voices, not when they try to be the same, but when they stand up for who we are and what we see and how important it is that our voice is heard.