Women in Clothes Quotes

“I like the jellyfish because it has no brain or heart. It’s just a thing that takes in the ocean through its mouth. I like that kind of ambition and simplicity.”
― Sheila Heti, Women in Clothes

“A problem I’ve always had with fashion magazines is that women are encouraged to copy other women. While I suspect that many men enjoy copying other men (consider the idea of the alpha male and beta males), and while part of what makes a man “superior” is how close he can get to “embodying manliness”
― Sheila Heti, Women in Clothes

“I am obsessed with shopping for secondhand clothing. Nobody else has it, and it has a story that comes with it.”
― Sheila Heti, Women in Clothes

“It’s like being a good curator—like Barnes—getting the combination of everything so right that nobody even questions it; making a hard thing look easy.”
― Sheila Heti, Women in Clothes

“The most compelling women are the ones who are distinctive, who are most like themselves and least like other women.”
― Sheila Heti, Women in Clothes

“But style, I also learned, is not about strictly copying others, because style is not transferable.”
― Sheila Heti, Women in Clothes

“style is about knowing what you like and why you like it, more than anything else. GRACE”
― Sheila Heti, Women in Clothes

“To me it’s also talking about how it’s okay to have your own identity in the face of all this pressure to have some other identity.”
― Sheila Heti, Women in Clothes