“My mother’s favorite saying is “Qui se ressemble s’assemble.” Whenever she didn’t approve of who I was spending time with, she’d say… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
“Fat daughters and their thin mothers have especially complicated relationships.” — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
“In my teens and early twenties, I often went clothes shopping with my mother and I could always see her dismay at… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
When I was a child, my parents took my brothers and me to Port-au-Prince during the summer so we could get to… — 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
“The mother kills one child to feed twelve, and one child to feed eleven, and one child to feed ten until she… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
Day after day with them, I see more and more of my parents in me. I see where all my quirks come… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
“My father believes hunger is in the mind. I know differently. I know that hunger is in the mind and the body… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
I have never been married. I don't know if I will ever marry, though I hope to. When I am asked why… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
I try to understand faith and religion. I was raised by wonderful Catholic parents who were deeply faithful and taught us that… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
“He wanted away from Mireille’s parents, all these people who said one thing and meant another. “You” — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
“I know what it means to hunger without being hungry. My father believes hunger is in the mind. I know differently. I… — 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
