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“When I was younger, thinking about whether I wanted children, I always came back to this formula: if no one had told me anything about the world, I would have invented boyfriends. I would have invented sex, friendship, art. I would not have invented child-rearing.”
― Sheila Heti, Motherhood

“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.”
― Sheila Heti, Motherhood