285 Quotes by Siri Hustvedt

I don’t know why you are better and more beautiful than anybody else.

He hunched his shoulders and looked at the floor. With that movement, he entered the past. When he put on his jacket, kissed me again, and walked to the door, he was already a memory.

In order to be accepted, women must compensate for their ambition and strength by being nice. Men don’t have to be nearly as much d as women. I do not believe women are natively nicer than men. They may learn that niceness brings rewards and hat names ambition is often punished. They may ingratiate themselves because such behavior is rewarded and a strategy of stealth may lead to better results than being forthright, but even when women are open and direct, they are not always seen or heard.

Every mental state is also physical.

I garden. It's very relaxing to me.

There are no rules in art.