Guoda

“Being a woman, you can't just say you don't want a child. You have to have some big plan or idea of what you're going to do instead. And it better be something great. And you had better be able to tell it convincingly - before it even happens - what the arc of your life will be.”
― Sheila Heti, Motherhood

“We turn our love backwards to make sense of life, to make beauty and significance of our mother's life. Maybe motherhood means honoring one's mother. Many people do that by becoming mothers. They do it by having children. They do it by imitating what their mother has done. By imitating and honoring what their mother has done, this makes them a mother.”
― Sheila Heti, Motherhood

“There cannot be happiness when you are fulfilling a destiny. Happiness is the opposite. Happiness will have to wait.”
― Sheila Heti, Motherhood

“If a man tells you that you're worrying too much, ask him to do the worrying for you.”
― Olga Ravn, My Work