Female Life on Planet Earth Quotes

“Constant regenerations. Which, Heti offered, might look like madness to a man who just lives his life straight, like an arrow, from start of the record to the end. For women, the needle skips. We are repetitions within repetitions, with infinite variations, some in our single lifetime, some in the lifetimes before or beyond. We change, and change again, to jump the skip, to survive. The neighbor stopped cutting and Heti went on, with a small smile. Celia didn't go crazy, she just changed like women must. One minute she's your girlfriend, and then your housewife, and then a mother, and then one day, a dimensional woman with a mind of her own, while you, Heti said, are triaped in the limits of man.”
― Laleh Khadivi, Female Life on Planet Earth

“And please, Heti, when I die just get rid of me as quickly as you can. Incinerate, bury, dumpster, whatever. If you do any of this hocus-pocus old-world crap I will haunt you for the rest of your days whispering sale, sale, sale, savings, sale, disaster, sale.”
― Laleh Khadivi, Female Life on Planet Earth

“Your father might have been a handsome wandering planet with chaos energy, but your mother was the steady one. She survived the collision, kept you in her grasp.”
― Laleh Khadivi, Female Life on Planet Earth