I think it was really entering my 30s that I began to embrace feminism and call myself a feminist. — 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
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
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 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
I am failing as a woman. I am failing as a feminist. To freely accept the feminist label would not be fair… — 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
“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 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
“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
“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
I worry about dying alone, unmarried and childless, because I spent so much time pursuing my career and accumulating degrees. This kind… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
We don't all have to believe in the same feminism. Feminism can be pluralistic so long as we respect the different feminisms… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
I was called a feminist, and what I heard was, 'You are an angry, sex-hating, man-hating victim lady person.' This caricature is… — 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 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
“Audre Lorde once stated, “I am a Black Feminist. I mean I recognize that my power as well as my primary oppressions… — 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
“Celebrities understand the economy of thinness, and most of them are willing to participate in that economy, taking to social media, where they pose… — Roxane Gay Copy Share
