In truth, I don't care about making feminism more accessible to anyone. — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
The past is always with you. Some people want to be protected from this truth. — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
“This is the uncomfortable truth: everything is a trigger for someone.” — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
“These are the ugliest, weakest, barest parts of me. This is my truth.” — 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
“There is an anxiety in being yourself, though. There is the haunting question of "What if?" always lingering. What if who I… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
2014 was a year of intense social upheaval. In truth, the same could be said for most every year. There is no… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
It's so hard to write about countries like Haiti because there's truths behind the misperceptions people have. But there's so much more.… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
“She didn't care if he was telling the truth. Milly felt nothing but she was very good at making men think otherwise.… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
“I am thinking about testimony I’ve heard from other women over the years—women sharing their truths, daring to use their voices to… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
“When you’re overweight, your body becomes a matter of public record in many respects. Your body is constantly and prominently on display.… — 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
