I see my tweets as a current joining a bunch of other currents in the world's craziest ocean. — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
I read constantly because there is so much to learn from the writing in the world. — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
Fiction offers escape but it also interrogates the world we live in, whether the past, present or future. — 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
My fiction is a very accurate reflection of the world we live in. Certainly, in some stories, that reflection is amplified but… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
I believe women not just in the United States but throughout the world deserve equality and freedom but know I am in… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
I love writing fiction because I can totally lose myself and I get to make up the rules of the world that… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
There's certainly a portion of my brain that is always tuned to making wry observations about the world, but that portion of… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
You don't necessarily have to do anything once you acknowledge your privilege. You don't have to apologize for it. You need to… — 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
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
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 am human. I am messy. I'm not trying to be an example. I am not trying to be perfect. I am… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
I'm fat positive, in that I don't see fat as a bad thing. But what I do see as a bad thing… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
I think the world is ambivalent about feminism. So I can't blame college students. I think they're reflecting the greater culture's attitude… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
Everyone else thinks I'm a nonfiction writer. I think it's because my nonfiction is easier to find. But I write both in… — 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 thought a lot about how so many memoirs about fatness focus on weight loss; they don't focus on living with weight… — 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
