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> [“Two years ago, Hanna said she was going on vacation with Laura downstate and instead drove to Marquette and had her tubes tied. She wasn't going to end up like her mother, with too many children in a too-small house…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roxane-gay/two-years-ago-hanna-said-she-was-going-on-vacation-with-laura/)

[Roxane Gay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roxane-gay/)

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## More by Roxane Gay

> [“Human endurance fascinates me, probably too much because more often than not, I think of life in terms of enduring instead of living.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roxane-gay/human-endurance-fascinates-me-probably-too-much-because-more-often/)

[Roxane Gay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roxane-gay/)

> [“Being useful was a balm.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roxane-gay/being-useful-was-a-balm/)

[Roxane Gay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roxane-gay/)

> [No woman or man is any one thing and the men in my stories, well, some of them are good and some of them…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roxane-gay/no-woman-or-man-is-any-one-thing-and-the-men-in-my-stories-well-some/)

[Roxane Gay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roxane-gay/)

> [“I was a daydreamer and I resented being pulled out of my daydreams to deal with the business of living.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roxane-gay/i-was-a-daydreamer-and-i-resented-being-pulled-out-of-my-daydreams-to/)

[Roxane Gay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roxane-gay/)

> [Feminism is, I hope, a way to a better future for everyone who inhabits this world. Feminism should not be something that needs a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roxane-gay/feminism-is-i-hope-a-way-to-a-better-future-for-everyone-who-inhabits/)

[Roxane Gay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roxane-gay/)

> [Fiction offers escape but it also interrogates the world we live in, whether the past, present or future.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roxane-gay/fiction-offers-escape-but-it-also-interrogates-the-world-we-live-in/)

[Roxane Gay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roxane-gay/)

> [“I've noticed while cooking, how ingredients in their individual and naked state and be a bit repulsive but necessary, kind of like people.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roxane-gay/i-ve-noticed-while-cooking-how-ingredients-in-their-individual-and/)

[Roxane Gay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roxane-gay/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roxane-gay/i-shouted-this-is-not-right-knowing-my-words-were-useless-there-s-no/)

[Roxane Gay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roxane-gay/)

> [Most of my favorite tweets go completely ignored but most of my favorite tweets are probably really lame or inside jokes between me and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roxane-gay/most-of-my-favorite-tweets-go-completely-ignored-but-most-of-my/)

[Roxane Gay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roxane-gay/)

> [“What about other women of color? For Hispanic and Latina women, Indian women, Middle Eastern women, Asian women, their absence in popular culture is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roxane-gay/what-about-other-women-of-color-for-hispanic-and-latina-women-indian/)

[Roxane Gay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roxane-gay/)

> [There has been, and there will continue to be, vigorous discussions about race in America. I worry that little will come of these discussions…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roxane-gay/there-has-been-and-there-will-continue-to-be-vigorous-discussions/)

[Roxane Gay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roxane-gay/)

> [Writing, at its best and truest, can offer solace and salvation for both readers and writers.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roxane-gay/writing-at-its-best-and-truest-can-offer-solace-and-salvation-for/)

[Roxane Gay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roxane-gay/)

> [“I knew I was in love with The Hunger Games when I did not want to get off the treadmill”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roxane-gay/i-knew-i-was-in-love-with-the-hunger-games-when-i-did-not-want-to-get/)

[Roxane Gay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roxane-gay/)

> [“Just because you survive something does not mean you are strong.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roxane-gay/just-because-you-survive-something-does-not-mean-you-are-strong/)

[Roxane Gay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roxane-gay/)

> [“Celebrities understand the economy of thinness, and most of them are willing to participate in that economy, taking to social media, where they pose…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roxane-gay/celebrities-understand-the-economy-of-thinness-and-most-of-them-are/)

[Roxane Gay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roxane-gay/)

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