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
“I want characters to do bad things and get away with their misdeeds. I want characters to think ugly thoughts and make… — 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 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
I think it was really entering my 30s that I began to embrace feminism and call myself a feminist. — 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 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
I wrote myself back together. I wrote myself toward a stronger version of myself . . . Through writing and feminism, I… — 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
“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
In truth, feminism is flawed because it is a movement powered by people and people are inherently flawed. — 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
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
“I disavowed feminism because I had no rational understanding of the movement. I was called a feminist, and what I heard was,… — 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 Image
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 Image
“I was a daydreamer and I resented being pulled out of my daydreams to deal with the business of living.” — 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 needs a… — 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
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
Writing, at its best and truest, can offer solace and salvation for both readers and writers. — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
