Sheila Heti Quotes

I think that so many people who have children seem to want other people to have children in order to make their choice feel more essential, more inevitable, and just more right.

Sheila Heti

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

ChildrenPeopleThinkFeelChoice

To describe my scarce leisure time in today's terms, I always default to reading.

Jimmy Buffett

TodayTimeReadingAlwaysLeisure

Since war became a geographically distant but very real way of life after Sept. 11, 2001, no Hollywood star has stepped up to support active duty U.S. military personnel and wounded veterans like Gary Sinise.

Andrew Breitbart

LifeWarSupportHollywoodDutyWay

Mr. Speaker, democracy works best when the American electorate is engaged and informed.

Melissa Bean

BestDemocracyAmericanInformedMr

I am a very private person. I still get shy at times.

Amy Weber

I AmPersonShyGetPrivate Person

At the end of the day, I don't care how many catches I have or how many yards I have. As long as the Ws keep stacking up in the win column, I'm happy.

Stefon Diggs

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Miley Cyrus twerking - is that really a model for your kids?

Simon Beaufoy

KidsModelYourReally

Seeing my child born is so much more important than anything else I've got going on.

Lukas Forchhammer

ChildSeeingBornImportantMore

People don't know about the human part of me that really cares about the world. For instance, I don't know what I feel about wearing my furs anymore. I worked so hard to have a fur coat, and I don't want to wear it anymore because I'm so wrapped up in the animals. I have real deep thoughts about it because I care about the world and nature.

Diana Ross

NaturePeopleMeThoughtsWorld

I had a great editor, Rebecca Corbett, from the time I was a city reporter right through to the years I worked on the 'Sun's' enterprise reporting team.

David Simon

GreatTimeSunCityTeamRight

It is easy to romanticize poverty, to see poor people as inherently lacking agency and will. It is easy to strip them of human dignity, to reduce them to objects of pity. This has never been clearer than in the view of Africa from the American media, in which we are shown poverty and conflicts without any context.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

PeopleAmericanViewMediaPoverty

We have access to practical, ethical and scientifically established methods of birth control. So I think that is the most ethical way to reduce our population.

Christian de Duve

ControlThinkWayBirthEthical

When I was a kid I didn't feel like I fit in because - this is really silly and I probably shouldn't say it, but, I didn't think anything was funny. So I used to go home and literally cry to my mom and my step-dad at the time and I didn't think anything was funny. I couldn't laugh.

Courteney Cox

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