"One good thing about being a woman is we haven't too many examples yet of what a genius looks like. It could be me."

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Source : Sheila Heti (2012). “How Should a Person Be?: A Novel from Life”, p.4, Macmillan

Sheila Heti

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“But very unfortunately the merchant marine died away till even the majority of fishing done about the Cape is in the hands of the Portuguese who emigrated to the Cape some fifty years ago.”
“For me, the most difficult piece is the one I'm about to make.”
“Nothing lasts forever. Butâ€”especially as it seems to me cities and humans are symbiotically and inextricably bound at this pointâ€”I hope cities have a good, long run. Plus, cities are beautiful creatures in their own right; and as with us, their vulnerability and ephemerality are part of that beauty.”
“It was only when I lay there on the rotting prison straw that I sensed within myself the first stirrings of good. Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not between states nor between social classes nor between political parties, but right through every human heart, through all human hearts. And that is why I turn back to the years of my imprisonment and say, sometimes to the astonishment of those about me, bless you, prison, for having been a part of my life.”
“I feel that discussing story-writing in terms of plot, character, and theme is like trying to describe the expression on a face by saying where the eyes, nose, and mouth are.”
“There were a few people who got jobs in Limerick, a big barrel on wheels, and it was a barrel that went back and forth, and a shovel and a broom. So, they went around shoveling the horseshit into this barrel. So, you got that job when you were around 15, and then you got to retire at the age of 65, with a pension. A small pension. So that would be 50 years of shoveling horseshit. And I was advised very seriously that I should get that job.”
“It's so important what you're doing in your life. It's tremendously important to the work, and no aesthetic theories take that into account.”

Source : Source: thequietus.com
“I think 99 percent of women's lib comes from technology making different kinds of lives possible, and then the social adjustment follows the technology - it doesn't precede it.”

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