Sheila Heti Quotes

I wanted to talk to a lot of women about their experiences along the path to motherhood - or along the path to not being a mother.

Sheila Heti

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

MotherWomenPathMotherhoodTalk

As long as we're dependent on those fossil fuels, we're dependent on the Middle East. If we are not victims, we're certainly captives.

John M. McHugh

LongMiddleMiddle EastFossil Fuels

The entertainment industry isn't secure.

Anita Hassanandani Reddy

EntertainmentIndustrySecure

My favorite magazine is the 'Harvard Business Review.' If someone sat across from me in a restaurant and didn't know me, that might surprise them.

Sophia Amoruso

BusinessMeSurpriseRestaurantKnow

Dogs give us something just as we give something to them.

Robert Crais

DogsSomethingUsGiveJustThem

Early on, I really liked the idea of being confrontational. I loved the idea of making songs that made people really uncomfortable.

Lou Barlow

PeopleLovedUncomfortableEarly

Making checklists of things you're looking for in a person is the numero uno thing you can do to guarantee you'll be alone forever.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

AloneLookingYouPersonForever

There were so many people after that first 'Colbert Report' interview that were impressed by the synergy we had during the interview. People everywhere we'd go would say, 'You should be the bandleader; it would be great for jazz. It would be great for the music.' But I was completely against it.

Jon Batiste

MusicGreatPeopleYouGoJazz

I've never recorded anything I didn't like.

Aretha Franklin

NeverAnythingLikeRecorded

Let us not seek to bring religion to others, but let us endeavor to live it ourselves.

Paul Tournier

LiveReligionOthersEndeavorBring

When I win, it doesn't occur to me to remember anybody who isn't a loved one.

Sergio Ramos

MeWinLovedRememberWhoAnybody

The peculiarities of my childhood, of constantly moving through so many different cultures, of always being the outsider, may have made me extraordinarily self-sufficient, but it had also bred a certain detachment, a sense that the world was a place to explore rather than truly inhabit. This manifested as a kind of shyness, even timidity.

Scott Anderson

ChildhoodMeMovingWorldPlace

Do all children have some inherent right to live in America if they have done nothing wrong? If not, then why should the children of illegal immigrants have such a right?

Thomas Sowell

LiveChildrenAmericaImmigrantsWhy

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