In truth, I don't care about making feminism more accessible to anyone. — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
Beyonce is not above critique. As a feminist herself, I hope Beyonce would welcome it. — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
I love romantic comedies. I know how terrible they are, but I love them! And I don't think that makes me less… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
I think there are a lot of rules for women. We have a lot of expectations and a lot of rules for… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
I think it was really entering my 30s that I began to embrace feminism and call myself a feminist. — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
If a woman wants to take her husband's name, that's her choice, and I still think she can be feminist while doing… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
So often feminism is built up as this thing where you have to be perfect. You have to be consistent and you… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
When feminism falls short of our expectations, we decide the problem is with feminism rather than with the flawed people who act… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
I would love for everyone to be a feminist, but I have to respect people's choices. If you don't want to be… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
Some women being empowered does not prove the patriarchy is dead. It proves that some of us are lucky. — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
And all the women are feminine, so we never get to see masculine presenting women and we never get to frame that… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
It's an amusing idea to some, this feminism thing - this audacious notion that women should be able to move through the… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
“I believe feminism is grounded in supporting the choices of women even if we wouldn’t make certain choices for ourselves. I believe… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
Feminism is, I hope, a way to a better future for everyone who inhabits this world. Feminism should not be something that… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
I wrote myself back together. I wrote myself toward a stronger version of myself . . . Through writing and feminism, I… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
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I think one of the most important things we can do as feminists is acknowledge that, even though we have womanhood in… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
“I embrace the label of bad feminist because I am human. I am messy. I’m not trying to be an example. I… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
Maybe I'm a bad feminist, but I am deeply committed to the issues important to the feminist movement. I have strong opinions… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
“Feminism, as of late, has suffered from a certain guilt by association because we conflate feminism with women who advocate feminism as… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
Feminism is a choice, and if a woman does not want to be a feminist, that is her right, but it is… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
“I get angry when women disavow feminism and shun the feminist label but say they support all the advances born of feminism… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
As I started to think about how I can claim feminism while also acknowledging my humanity and my imperfections, 'bad feminism' simply… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
“When I was called a feminist, during those days, my first thought was, But I willingly give blow jobs. I had it… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
I believe feminism is grounded in supporting the choices of women even if we wouldn’t make certain choices for ourselves. — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
I keep trying to imagine a universe in which too many public figures declaring themselves feminists would be a bad thing. — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
Feminism has neglected the needs of woman of color and people of color in general. But I don't think it means that… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
“I embrace the label of bad feminist because I am human. I am messy. I’m not trying to be an example. I… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
In truth, feminism is flawed because it is a movement powered by people and people are inherently flawed. — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
This is the real problem feminism faces. Too many people are willfully ignorant about what the word means and what the movement… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
Oftentimes, when a woman demands accountability, respect, or consideration, she is crazy or nagging or whatever. — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
I am a bad feminist and a good woman. I am trying to become better in how I think and say and… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
We have to believe that we can hold different points of view without labeling each other bad feminists. — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
People don't want to think... I mean, they don't! They just want to say, 'Oh, okay, feminists are humorless man-haters,' and that's… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
I support anything that broadens the message of gender equality and tempers the stigma of the feminist label. We run into trouble,… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
Feminism is just an idea. It's a philosophy. It's about the equality of women in all realms. It's not about man-hating. It's… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
“Human endurance fascinates me, probably too much because more often than not, I think of life in terms of enduring instead of living.” — Roxane Gay Copy Share
No woman or man is any one thing and the men in my stories, well, some of them are good and some of them… — Roxane Gay Copy Share
“I was a daydreamer and I resented being pulled out of my daydreams to deal with the business of living.” — Roxane Gay Copy Share
Feminism is, I hope, a way to a better future for everyone who inhabits this world. Feminism should not be something that needs a… — Roxane Gay Copy Share
Fiction offers escape but it also interrogates the world we live in, whether the past, present or future. — Roxane Gay Copy Share
“I've noticed while cooking, how ingredients in their individual and naked state and be a bit repulsive but necessary, kind of like people.” — Roxane Gay Copy Share
“I shouted, “This is not right,” knowing my words were useless. There’s no room for such distinctions in a country where too many people… — Roxane Gay Copy Share
Most of my favorite tweets go completely ignored but most of my favorite tweets are probably really lame or inside jokes between me and… — Roxane Gay Copy Share
“What about other women of color? For Hispanic and Latina women, Indian women, Middle Eastern women, Asian women, their absence in popular culture is… — Roxane Gay Copy Share
There has been, and there will continue to be, vigorous discussions about race in America. I worry that little will come of these discussions… — Roxane Gay Copy Share
Writing, at its best and truest, can offer solace and salvation for both readers and writers. — Roxane Gay Copy Share
“I knew I was in love with The Hunger Games when I did not want to get off the treadmill” — Roxane Gay Copy Share
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