I can't please everyone. I am trying not to let the pressure consume me. — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
My parents have been married for 42 years. Their marriage has been - from what I can see - a happy one. — 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
With my writing, I generally just pretend that no one's reading it. I allow myself that delusion so that I can write… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
I love how I can see [on Twitter] some of the thoughts and ideas of my favorite cultural figures and still also… — 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
Maybe true love isn't out there for me, but I can sublimate my loneliness with the notion that true love is out… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
I can consider not only great art, but the context in which that art has been created. I can consider the people… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
Living in a rural town really compelled me to start tweeting so much. Mostly, my Twitter usage is fueled by loneliness. I… — 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
I live in Indiana and teach at Purdue University, a wonderful school with some of the brightest students I have ever had… — 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
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