I am trying so very hard to stay in the moment despite the ferocity of my ambition. — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
I look at my older writing to see where my weaknesses are and then I try to address those weaknesses and make… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
What is it like to be connected to someone you can never get away from, for better or worse? I love trying… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
I think hunger is a natural state of being for most people. I mean, hunger is a desire - and you don't… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
We don't all have to believe in the same feminism. Feminism can be pluralistic so long as we respect the different feminisms… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
I am human. I am messy. I'm not trying to be an example. I am not trying to be perfect. I am… — 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 can't please everyone. I am trying not to let the pressure consume me. — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
My dream was to write a book and see it published. I didn't dare imagine anything beyond that, so, I'm trying to… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
The other day, I saw a blog post where a woman wrote about why she was unfollowing me and that made me… — 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
I think that everyone in one way or another has some sort of body issue. There's something about themselves physically that they're… — 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
