Memory is essential to who we are, and memories can be both implicit and explicit - unconscious and conscious.
Siri HustvedtIt 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.
Siri HustvedtIn effect, painting is the still memory of [the artist's] human motion, and our individual responses to it depend on who we are, on our character, which underlines the simple truth that no person leaves himself behind in order to look at a painting.
Siri HustvedtAfter years of having immersed myself in science, I do think that if you master several different ways of thinking, it makes your own thought processes more agile.
Siri Hustvedt