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Top 25 Åsne Seierstad Quotes (2024 Update)

Åsne Seierstad Quote: “I think when you start to get afraid, it’s time to leave.”

1. “I think when you start to get afraid, it’s time to leave.”

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Åsne Seierstad Quote: “If we can’t understand the Afghan family, we can’t understand Afghanistan.”

2. “If we can’t understand the Afghan family, we can’t understand Afghanistan.”

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Åsne Seierstad Quote: “There is nothing I would change – to change it I would have had to write a totally different book.”

3. “There is nothing I would change – to change it I would have had to write a totally different book.”

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Åsne Seierstad Quote: “As a war correspondent, you have to weigh the risk you run against the story you can get.”

4. “As a war correspondent, you have to weigh the risk you run against the story you can get.”

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Åsne Seierstad Quote: “If my name had not been cleared, it would have been difficult, perhaps impossible, to continue as a journalist.”

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

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Åsne Seierstad Quote: “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.”

6. “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.”

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Åsne Seierstad Quote: “The family is the single most important institution in Afghan culture. It is described in the countrys constitution as the fundamental pillar of society.”

7. “The family is the single most important institution in Afghan culture. It is described in the countrys constitution as the fundamental pillar of society.”

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Åsne Seierstad Quote: “As a woman, you accept the situation, adapt to it, and do your best, whereas men would choose violence.”

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

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Åsne Seierstad Quote: “There is no journalist without opinions, and there’s no real objectivity, but we can strive toward it.”

9. “There is no journalist without opinions, and there’s no real objectivity, but we can strive toward it.”

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Åsne Seierstad Quote: “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.”

10. “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.”

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Åsne Seierstad Quote: “I believe the consequences of a war are so harsh that it should be always the last resort.”

11. “I believe the consequences of a war are so harsh that it should be always the last resort.”

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Åsne Seierstad Quote: “I’m trying to see my own country with fresh eyes.”

12. “I’m trying to see my own country with fresh eyes.”

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Åsne Seierstad Quote: “If I leave, reality will devour me. Then they will all really be dead.”

13. “If I leave, reality will devour me. Then they will all really be dead.”

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Åsne Seierstad Quote: “If you’ve lived in a dictatorship for thirty years, you’re used to people lying to you.”

14. “If you’ve lived in a dictatorship for thirty years, you’re used to people lying to you.”

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Åsne Seierstad Quote: “Being a war correspondent, and having covered four wars, I know that wars very seldom solve things.”

15. “Being a war correspondent, and having covered four wars, I know that wars very seldom solve things.”

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Åsne Seierstad Quote: “We have believing in this innocent feeling of nothing will ever happen to us, because all catastrophes always broad and happening to anyone else.”

16. “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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Åsne Seierstad Quote: “Even in a war, someone has to take care of daily life. Someone has to feed and clothe the children.”

17. “Even in a war, someone has to take care of daily life. Someone has to feed and clothe the children.”

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Åsne Seierstad Quote: “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.”

18. “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.”

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Åsne Seierstad Quote: “I always try to describe the situation just as it is. I try to find sentences that I believe tell the story best. Even my articles are more literary than ordinary news stories.”

19. “I always try to describe the situation just as it is. I try to find sentences that I believe tell the story best. Even my articles are more literary than ordinary news stories.”

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Åsne Seierstad Quote: “It was very difficult to write about my own country, because I have always been the outsider looking in.”

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

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Åsne Seierstad Quote: “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.”

21. “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.”

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Åsne Seierstad Quote: “When I decided to stay in Iraq, I decided to take the fear out of my body and put it into a freezer.”

22. “When I decided to stay in Iraq, I decided to take the fear out of my body and put it into a freezer.”

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Åsne Seierstad Quote: “We don’t grow up in vacuums. We grow up in societies.”

23. “We don’t grow up in vacuums. We grow up in societies.”

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Åsne Seierstad Quote: “I would like my book to give people insight to the war before and after, but I don’t think anyone could read my book and suddenly make up her mind about the war. I want to write for everybody.”

24. “I would like my book to give people insight to the war before and after, but I don’t think anyone could read my book and suddenly make up her mind about the war. I want to write for everybody.”

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Åsne Seierstad Quote: “There are personal reasons, psychological reasons, but there could also be political reasons for becoming a terrorist.”

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

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