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.
Siri HustvedtOur brain and our whole nervous system and our whole body are only created in relation to other people and to the environment. So what we have here is an enormously complex notion of both consciousness and unconsciousness. That's why these models get very difficult, because you can't reduce our subjective and intersubjective experience to neural reductions.
Siri HustvedtWidowers marry again because it makes their lives easier. Widows often don't, because it makes their lives harder. [p. 61]
Siri Hustvedt