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last updated: November 28, 2023

I've never felt like a trophy wife. I have been able to learn a lot in my role. The fact that you do not have any formal powers does not mean that one does not have a good starting point to give their opinion on important value questions. I really feel that I can put the spotlight on many issues that are important in Norwegian society. And I am very happy.
-- Mette-Marit, Crown Princess of Norway

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“He's just fun, so much fun. I'm very happy now.”
“All of my books come from pain.”
“Savor more; fix less. Laugh more; cry less. Anticipate positively more; anticipate negatively less. Just practice that and watch what happens.”
“The tension to mother the "right" way can leave a peculiar silence within mother daughter relationships--the silence of a mother'sown truth and experience. Within this silence, a daughter's authentic voice can also fall silent. This is the silence of perfection. This silence of perfection prevents mothers from listening and learning from their daughters.”
“I am more of an old black and white movies fan.”
“She is furious with herself for her own stupidity. Opening herself up like this, voluntarily, to a lifetime of worry and anguish. It was madness. Sheer lunacy. A spectacularly foolish and baseless faith, against enormous odds, that a world you do not control will not take from you the one thing you cannot bear to lose. Faith that the world will not destroy you.”
“The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.”
“I feel like in telling stories, there are the things the audience thinks are important, and then there are the things that are actually important.”

Source : "Postscript: Saul Leiter (1923-2013)" by Teju Cole, www.newyorker.com. November 27, 2013.
“Funny enough, every role that I have had, I try to tone down my accent or speak with better diction.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“So, because I have a mental illness I should disappear and hide? Ever since I went into hospital, all I have heard and read about is people telling me what they think I should do.”