Sheila Heti Quotes

I don't think about the reader when I'm writing, but I do when I'm editing, of course. For instance, I self-consciously didn't want to do anything to increase the divide between mothers and nonmothers - I think that divide is so horrible and destructive and unnecessary.

Sheila Heti

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: canadian
  • Birth: December 25, 1976

Topics

WritingThinkWantEditingAnything

Family and friendships are two of the greatest facilitators of happiness.

John C. Maxwell

FamilyHappinessTwoGreatest

Cersei is a character who's done unspeakable things, and yet we also know that she's a mother who's lost her children - that she's been pushed to the end of her tether.

Jeremy Podeswa

MotherCharacterChildrenEndKnow

Let's be very clear: Living 'unforgiven' is not the sole domain of blacks. It can be found in any successful person.

John Ridley

PersonLivingSuccessfulClearFound

Sentencing a political opponent to death after a show trial is no different to taking him out on the street and shooting him. In fact, it is worse because using the court system as a tool of state repression makes a mockery of the rule of law.

Amal Clooney

DeathLawPoliticalStreetShooting

The odds are always against you no matter what your previous history is. You have to overcome the tendency to relax.

Tom Osborne

HistoryRelaxYouMatterOvercome

I know I'm not musically talented.

Rob Mariano

KnowMusicallyTalented

I've learnt to be happy by myself.

Missy Elliott

MyselfHappyBe HappyLearnt

Through persistent dedication, Susan B. Anthony, and other remarkable leaders, women were finally granted the right to vote in 1920.

Louise Slaughter

WomenDedicationVoteRightThrough

I think action movies bring more excitement than tears, but I always want to take it to another level. I mean, I think if one appreciates anything in life to a certain degree, it could possibly bring tears to your eyes.

Donnie Yen

LifeEyesTearsActionThinkMovies

I was always interested in going deeply into the life of the Prophet.

Deepak Chopra

LifeAlwaysGoingInterestedProphet

The people you see in Nigeria today have always lived as neighbors in the same space for as long as we can remember. So it's a matter of settling down, lowering the rhetoric, the level of hostility in the rhetoric is too high.

Chinua Achebe

TodaySpacePeopleRememberYou

Before my tenure, people didn't seem to think that citizens had a right to limit the size of their government.

William Weld

GovernmentPeopleThinkSizeLimit

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