As the only woman, I was able to sit with the officers in front, with a glass of vodka in one hand and a cucumber in the other. That's how I went to my first war.
If we can't understand the Afghan family, we can't understand Afghanistan. - Asne Seierstad
If we can't understand the Afghan family, we can't understand Afghanistan.
- Asne Seierstad
If I leave, reality will devour me. Then they will all really be dead. - Asne Seierstad
If I leave, reality will devour me. Then they will all really be dead.
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, … - Asne Seierstad
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, …
Being a war correspondent, and having covered four wars, I know that wars very seldom solve things. - Asne Seierstad
Being a war correspondent, and having covered four wars, I know that wars very seldom solve things.
As a woman, you accept the situation, adapt to it, and do your best, whereas men would choose violence. - Asne Seierstad
As a woman, you accept the situation, adapt to it, and do your best, whereas men would choose violence.
It was very difficult to write about my own country, because I have always been the outsider looking in. - Asne Seierstad
It was very difficult to write about my own country, because I have always been the outsider looking in.
I will get a loan and pay the money the court asks for. But I will not lay down my writing and I still say this was an important book to write. - Asne Seierstad
I will get a loan and pay the money the court asks for. But I will not lay down my writing and I still say this was an important book to write.
If I lose, then I have to accept that my way of writing books is not the way society says it's okay to write. - Asne Seierstad
If I lose, then I have to accept that my way of writing books is not the way society says it's okay to write.
We have believing in this innocent feeling of nothing will ever happen to us, because all catastrophes always broad and happening to anyone else. - Asne Seierstad
We have believing in this innocent feeling of nothing will ever happen to us, because all catastrophes always broad and happening to anyone else.
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