Pain is always emotional. Fear and depression keep constant company with chronic hurting.
Siri HustvedtI've often thought that one of us is what we imagine, that each of us normalizes the terrible strangeness of inner life with a variety of convenient fictions.
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 HustvedtBeing 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.
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