Being a mother is complicated because its not just a paternal culture making demands on you; its those internal demands and expectations that women have and are self-generated.
Siri HustvedtMemory is essential to who we are, and memories can be both implicit and explicit - unconscious and conscious.
Siri HustvedtAll human states are organic brain states - happiness, sadness, fear, lust, dreaming, doing math problems and writing novels - and our brains are not static.
Siri Hustvedt