"The wind shows us how close to the edge we are."
"I did consider marriage and motherhood extreme and doomed commitments. Not out of any experience of them as such, but it was simply the way I looked at things."
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Source: Interview with Sheila Heti, www.believermag.com. December, 2011.
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