172 Quotes by Sheila Heti

Maybe I have to think about myself less as a woman with this woman’s special task, and more as an individual with her own special task – not put woman before my individuality.

Maybe motherhood means honoring one’s mother.

Happiness and joy are feeling like you belong to the world, and are at home in the world, at the level of nature, humanity and time.

There are times when things are clear in your head and your heart and everything comes all aligned and it’s easy and it just feels good to do something. But most of the time it’s not like that. Most of the time there’s conflict between your head and your heart.

It’s fun to give pleasure to people.

It’s so hard to live that one needs a support around life. We can’t live without some supernatural support.

Most people live their entire lives with their clothes on, and even if they wanted to, couldn’t take them off. Then there are those who cannot put them on. They are the ones who live their lives not just as people but as examples of people. They are destined to expose every part of themselves, so the rest of us can know what it means to be a human.

When I strip away my dreams, what I imagine to be my potential, all the things I haven’t said, what I imagine I feel for other people in the absence of my expressing it, all the rules I’ve made for myself that I don’t follow – I see that I’ve done as little as anyone else in this world to deserve the grand moniker I.

We don’t know the effects we have on each other, but we have them.