Siri Hustvedt
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449 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Aug 2026
last heard 4 Aug
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Yeah, I'm much less defended.
Yes, it was.
And I have to say, it infuriated Paul, too.
Yeah.
Because, well, he knew this wasn't the case.
But I think—
When I realized, it took me years, by the way, and I'm not going to pretend it didn't hurt me.
It did hurt me.
But as time went on, I began to understand that it wasn't really about me, right?
It was about reasserting the hierarchies of the culture to make sure that
That the wife was the underling.
And she couldn't be an intellectual in the way the husband was, no.
And she just had to be subordinate.
And that need for subordination, the need to push down, which of course is...
but also more belligerently misogyny, real hatred, that once I had that sense of what was really going on, it was much easier for me to not feel so hurt and to feel calm and steely again.
In the face of it.
So that was it.
It was kind of became much easier.
And I found that I could handle those moments when it was happening.
Right.
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