Quote by Roxane Gay Download Open image ““For difficult women, who should be celebrated for their very nature”” — Roxane Gay ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“In every medium, women are relentlessly presented as either rewards, ornaments, or obstacles.” — Jaclyn Friedman Copy Share Image
“We must have respect and understanding for women and all female life on this Earth which bears the sacred gift of life.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“All these much-celebrated choices that we have, apparently, us modern women. There are no choices, only higher expectations. Except” — Jo Furniss Copy Share Image
“the circle of women coming together to celebrate being alive—and being a woman, which is a magic all its own.” — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
“This humanity of woman, brought forth in pains and degradations, will come to light when she has shed the conventions of mere femininity in… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Men can have an obvious display of heroics or strength or accomplishment, but it is the unsung women throughout all ages of humankind who… — Red Haircrow Copy Share Image
“I am a strong and powerful woman. I am proud to be a woman and I celebrate the qualities that I have as a woman. I am not defined by other people’s opinion of who I should be or what I should do as a woman. I determine that, not anyone else. I am not passed up for a position,… — Idowu Koyenikan Copy Share
“I am a Woman: an emblem of dignity; loving, caring, healing...scintillating, inspiring and appealing...” — Mallika Tripathi Copy Share Image
“All these much-celebrated choices that we have, apparently, us modern women. There are no choices, only higher expectations.” — Jo Furniss Copy Share Image
“But for this epoch we must wait—wait, perhaps, till kings and nobles, enlightened by reason, and, preferring the real dignity of man to childish state, throw off their gaudy hereditary trappings; and if then women do not resign the arbitrary power of beauty, they will prove that they have LESS mind than man. I may be accused of arrogance; still… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share
Women should be tough, tender, laugh as much as possible, and live long lives. The struggle for equality continues unabated, and the woman warrior… — Maya Angelou 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 are terrible, and most of them make the lives of the women they love much harder than need be. Why? Because that's the kind of storytelling I was drawn to when I wrote these stories, most… — Roxane Gay Copy Share
“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