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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.Siri Hustvedt
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I am fascinated that no one I have read seems to have noticed that the literature on Picasso continually turns grown-up women into girls.Siri Hustvedt
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Artists are cannibals. We consume other artists, and they become part of us–flesh and bone–only to be spewed out again in our own works.Siri Hustvedt
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The best works of art are never innocuous: they alter the viewer's perceptual predictions. It is only when the patterns of our vision are disrupted that we truly pay attention and must ask ourselves what we are looking at.Siri Hustvedt
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The history of art is full of women lying around naked for erotic consumption by men.Siri Hustvedt
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There is no perception without memory. But good art surprise us. Good art reorients our expectations, forces us to break the pattern, to see in a new way.Siri Hustvedt
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My purely practical advice: Don't get excited. Don't raise your voice. Bite back. Bite back hard, but never cry.Siri Hustvedt