--- title: "14 Trying Quotes By Roxane Gay" description: "14 Trying quotes by Roxane Gay. Plus more from Roxane Gay and more Trying sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a3c/roxane-gay-520_growing_i-am-trying-to-keep-growing-and-improvin_1266364.png" --- > [I am trying to keep growing and improving as a writer.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roxane-gay/i-am-trying-to-keep-growing-and-improving-as-a-writer/) [Roxane Gay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roxane-gay/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a3c/roxane-gay-520_growing_i-am-trying-to-keep-growing-and-improvin_1266364.png) > [I am trying so very hard to stay in the moment despite the ferocity of my ambition.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roxane-gay/i-am-trying-so-very-hard-to-stay-in-the-moment-despite-the-ferocity/) [Roxane Gay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roxane-gay/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/264/roxane-gay-520_ambition_i-am-trying-so-very-hard-to-stay-in-the_252867.png) > [I can't please everyone. I am trying not to let the pressure consume me.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roxane-gay/i-can-t-please-everyone-i-am-trying-not-to-let-the-pressure-consume-me/) [Roxane Gay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roxane-gay/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/066/roxane-gay-520_consume_i-can-t-please-everyone-i-am-trying-not_2324991.png) > [I am a bad feminist and a good woman. I am trying to become better in how I think and say and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roxane-gay/i-am-a-bad-feminist-and-a-good-woman-i-am-trying-to-become-better-in/) [Roxane Gay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roxane-gay/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a91/roxane-gay-520_feminism_i-am-a-bad-feminist-and-a-good-woman-i-a_2082197.png) > [I keep trying to imagine a universe in which too many public figures declaring themselves feminists would be a bad thing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roxane-gay/i-keep-trying-to-imagine-a-universe-in-which-too-many-public-figures/) [Roxane Gay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roxane-gay/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a7e/roxane-gay-520_bad_i-keep-trying-to-imagine-a-universe-in-w_2690034.png) > [I look at my older writing to see where my weaknesses are and then I try to address those weaknesses and make…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roxane-gay/i-look-at-my-older-writing-to-see-where-my-weaknesses-are-and-then-i/) [Roxane Gay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roxane-gay/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8db/roxane-gay-520_addresses_i-look-at-my-older-writing-to-see-where_523280.png) > [My dream was to write a book and see it published. I didn't dare imagine anything beyond that, so, I'm trying to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roxane-gay/my-dream-was-to-write-a-book-and-see-it-published-i-didn-t-dare/) [Roxane Gay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roxane-gay/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/03e/roxane-gay-520_book_my-dream-was-to-write-a-book-and-see-it_2457654.png) > [What is it like to be connected to someone you can never get away from, for better or worse? I love trying…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roxane-gay/what-is-it-like-to-be-connected-to-someone-you-can-never-get-away/) [Roxane Gay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roxane-gay/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/417/roxane-gay-520_answers_what-is-it-like-to-be-connected-to-someo_612817.png) > [I think hunger is a natural state of being for most people. I mean, hunger is a desire - and you don't…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roxane-gay/i-think-hunger-is-a-natural-state-of-being-for-most-people-i-mean/) [Roxane Gay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roxane-gay/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ced/roxane-gay-520_desire_i-think-hunger-is-a-natural-state-of-bei_1637467.jpg) > [We don't all have to believe in the same feminism. Feminism can be pluralistic so long as we respect the different feminisms…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roxane-gay/we-don-t-all-have-to-believe-in-the-same-feminism-feminism-can-be-2/) [Roxane Gay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roxane-gay/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f71/roxane-gay-520_believe_we-don-t-all-have-to-believe-in-the-same_1741528.png) > [I think that everyone in one way or another has some sort of body issue. There's something about themselves physically that they're…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roxane-gay/i-think-that-everyone-in-one-way-or-another-has-some-sort-of-body/) [Roxane Gay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roxane-gay/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6bf/roxane-gay-520_about_i-think-that-everyone-in-one-way-or-anot_2799787.png) > [I am human. I am messy. I'm not trying to be an example. I am not trying to be perfect. I am…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roxane-gay/i-am-human-i-am-messy-i-m-not-trying-to-be-an-example-i-am-not-trying/) [Roxane Gay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roxane-gay/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a8a/roxane-gay-520_answers_i-am-human-i-am-messy-i-m-not-trying-to_1750465.jpg) > [I wrote myself back together. I wrote myself toward a stronger version of myself . . . Through writing and feminism, I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roxane-gay/i-wrote-myself-back-together-i-wrote-myself-toward-a-stronger-version/) [Roxane Gay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roxane-gay/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/951/roxane-gay-520_another-woman_i-wrote-myself-back-together-i-wrote-mys_2735914.png) > [The other day, I saw a blog post where a woman wrote about why she was unfollowing me and that made me…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roxane-gay/the-other-day-i-saw-a-blog-post-where-a-woman-wrote-about-why-she-was/) [Roxane Gay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roxane-gay/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4eb/roxane-gay-520_blogs_the-other-day-i-saw-a-blog-post-where-a_2569023.png) ## Other authors on Trying ## 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/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/trying/roxane-gay/#itemlist", "name": "14 Trying Quotes By Roxane Gay", "numberOfItems": 14, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I am trying to keep growing and improving as a writer.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Roxane Gay" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roxane-gay/i-am-trying-to-keep-growing-and-improving-as-a-writer/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a3c/roxane-gay-520_growing_i-am-trying-to-keep-growing-and-improvin_1266364.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a3c/roxane-gay-520_growing_i-am-trying-to-keep-growing-and-improvin_1266364.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a3c/roxane-gay-520_growing_i-am-trying-to-keep-growing-and-improvin_1266364.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I am trying to keep growing and improving as a writer.” — Roxane Gay", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I am trying so very hard to stay in the moment despite the ferocity of my ambition.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Roxane Gay" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roxane-gay/i-am-trying-so-very-hard-to-stay-in-the-moment-despite-the-ferocity/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/264/roxane-gay-520_ambition_i-am-trying-so-very-hard-to-stay-in-the_252867.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/264/roxane-gay-520_ambition_i-am-trying-so-very-hard-to-stay-in-the_252867.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/264/roxane-gay-520_ambition_i-am-trying-so-very-hard-to-stay-in-the_252867.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I am trying so very hard to stay in the moment despite the ferocity of my ambition.” — Roxane Gay", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I can't please everyone. 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