If you feel like it's hard to be friends with women, consider that maybe women aren't the problem. Maybe it's just you. — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
If we look too closely at many historical figures, we won't like what we see. — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
Love your friends' kids, even if you don't want or like children. Just do it. — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
We all have our vanities. The retouching magazines like 'Vogue' do is the professional version of the retouching we do when we,… — 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
I have known beaches, but I have no particular fondness for them. I don't like sand in my crevices. I don't like… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
I am totally down with disagreement. I don't like Haterade, but disagreement is wonderful. When someone disagrees, we try to reach common… — 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
I was in love with the idea of love, so I created elaborate fictions for my relationships - fictions that allowed me… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
Throughout any given season of 'The Bachelor,' the women exclaim that the experience is like a fairy tale. They suffer the machinations… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
I tend to write three to four hours a day, depending - oftentimes very late at night. When I write on Twitter,… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
We like to think the best of ourselves. We like to believe we always say and do the right things. We like… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
It sometimes feels like the workplace is immune from social upheaval. We go to work and do the best we can, and… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
I cut an imposing figure. I am large, and I'm tall, and I have tattoos. I am actually really quiet and shy,… — 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
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“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
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