Asne Seierstad

The judgment means a lot. As a journalist being accused of invading someone's privacy, there is always a risk that it will stick to your name. ↗

— Asne Seierstad

#always #being #invading #journalist #judgment

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. ↗

— Asne Seierstad

#first #front #glass #hand #how

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

#book #court #down #get #i

If I leave, reality will devour me. Then they will all really be dead. ↗

— Asne Seierstad

#devour #i #leave #me #reality

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

#books #i #lose #okay #says

If my name had not been cleared, it would have been difficult, perhaps impossible, to continue as a journalist. ↗

— Asne Seierstad

#cleared #continue #difficult #had #impossible

If we can't understand the Afghan family, we can't understand Afghanistan. ↗

— Asne Seierstad

#afghanistan #family #understand

The book came after the fall of the Taliban, it says something about Afghan family life. Those kind of stories - what happens behind the scenes on a TV screen - are important. ↗

— Asne Seierstad

#afghan #after #behind #book #came

The family is the single most important institution in Afghan culture. It is described in the country's constitution as the 'fundamental pillar of society'. ↗

— Asne Seierstad

#constitution #country #culture #described #family

There is nothing I would change - to change it I would have had to write a totally different book. ↗

— Asne Seierstad

#change #different #had #i #nothing