41 Quotes by Asne Seierstad

Be yourself!’ said Gro. ‘No one will hear any of you otherwise, still less trust you. That’s the most important thing of all. If you’re not yourself you just can’t sustain it in the long term.

Do you know what is our problem? We know everything about our weapons, but we know nothing about how to use a telephone.

We don't grow up in vacuums. We grow up in societies.

I'm trying to see my own country with fresh eyes.

It was very difficult to write about my own country, because I have always been the outsider looking in.

There are personal reasons, psychological reasons, but there could also be political reasons for becoming a terrorist.

If you've lived in a dictatorship for thirty years, you're used to people lying to you.

As a woman, you accept the situation, adapt to it, and do your best, whereas men would choose violence.

I was thinking, there are 5 million people, and I am just one of those 5 million. In the build-up to the war you see children playing in the street, and you think, ah, I'm going to be okay.