Sheila Heti Quotes

It's so weird how our existence hinges on just absolute crazy chance, but it feels so essential. It's like, 'Nothing would be here if you weren't here,' because you are the centre of your universe.

Sheila Heti

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

CrazyChanceUniverseWeirdYou

As we know, forgiveness of oneself is the hardest of all the forgivenesses.

Joan Baez

ForgivenessKnowHardestOneself

It's still scary every time I go back to the past. Each morning, my heart catches. When I get there, I remember how the light was, where the draft was coming from, what odors were in the air. When I write, I get all the weeping out.

Maya Angelou

MorningHeartTimeLightPastBack

In America, the dreamers, the disabled and the disadvantaged are not left to defend themselves, alone in their struggles.

Mike Honda

AloneAmericaDefendLeftStruggles

To say that gender is performative is a little different because for something to be performative means that it produces a series of effects. We act and walk and speak and talk in ways that consolidate an impression of being a man or being a woman.

Judith Butler

WalkWomanManSpeakGenderSay

People have compared me to Lupe Fiasco, Kanye West, Eminem, and J. Cole. They bring substance and largely are all good storytellers, and those are two of my biggest strengths. It's dope to be compared to people who have longevity in the game because that's the most important thing for me: I want my name to live forever.

Jay IDK

GoodLivePeopleMeGameName

I have an enormous sense of having failed in life.

Jonathan Kozol

LifeSenseFailedHavingEnormous

I'll fight on Fight Pass; it's all the same to me.

Donald Cerrone

FightMeSamePass

I am a woman, so I never want to hide that or be like, 'I'm one of the boys,' because I'm not. I am aware of our audience. We always aim for the right combo of not hitting people over head but still getting our message across.

Nikki Glaser

WomanI AmPeopleHideWantAim

For years, I've been interviewed, and they write what they thought I thought or what they thought I said. Sometimes it's accurate, and often it isn't.

Linda Ronstadt

ThoughtSaidSometimesWriteYears

Where youth and diffidence are united, it requires uncommon steadiness of reason to resist the attraction of being called the most charming girl in the world.

Jane Austen

GirlYouthWorldReasonCharming

More often than not, changes had to be made in order for a song to make sense, and by the end of it, it would just be something different. Lyrically, I am usually fairly confused until something is finished, and then it makes perfect sense to me.

James Vincent McMorrow

I AmMeSongEndConfusedPerfect

It's not about how much movement you do, how much interaction there is, it just reeks of credibility if it's real. If it's contrived, it seems to work for a while for the people who can't filter out the real and unreal.

Fred Durst

WorkPeopleYouRealMovementOut

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