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With prodigious bravery and eviscerating humor, Roxane Gay takes on culture and politics in Bad Feminist-and gets it right, time and time again. We…

— Ayelet Waldman

Like lots of people, I really love Roxane Gay.

— Phoebe Robinson

There are writers who can show you the excellence of their brains and writers who show you the depths of their souls: I don't…

— Elizabeth McCracken

Praise Roxane Gay for her big-hearted self-examining intelligence, for her inclusive and forgiving stance, for her courage and determination . . . for saying…

— Pam Houston

“It was like when a midde-aged woman, happily married, found out that her favorite movie star was gay. It broke her heart just a…

— Amy Lane

“There was a gay fiction among us that we were constantly enjoying ourselves and a skeleton of truth that we never did.”

— Charles Dickens

“She believed now in earnest that fantasy is not practice for what is real— fantasy is the opiate of women.”

— Shannon Hale

“Maybe you can explain to me what is so spectacular about her, because you gay girls can’t seem to keep your hands off that…

— Cassandra Duffy

Rhaenyra is deeply interested in gender dynamics; she has really keen awareness for the different space that men and women are afforded. She feels…

— Emma D'Arcy

“Oh god, Anabeth,” Ellie muttered. “Your whole life is based around sex.” “So?” she shot back. “It’s better than having sex with fictional characters!”…

— Madeline Sheehan

“It’s queer how out of touch with truth women are. They live in a world of their own, and there has never been anything…

— joseph conrad

“What did it mean to her, this thing she called life? Oh, it was very queer.”

— Virginia Woolf