Quote by Roxane Gay Download Open image ““so much testimony is demanded of women, and still, there are those who doubt our stories.”” — Roxane Gay ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“I am thinking about testimony I’ve heard from other women over the years—women sharing their truths, daring to use their voices to say, “This… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
“Ladies are such unreliable witnesses; young ladies especially so. One never knows what facts they will fix upon and what they will disregard, and… — Debbie Cowens Copy Share Image
“We testify of what we have experienced and witnessed. May our testimony inspired others to share their story.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
“For in order to really suffer at the hands of a woman one must have believed in her completely.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“All of the women in my life were telling me the same thing. My story, my truth, my life, my voice, all of that… — Gabby Rivera Copy Share Image
“I never trusted the women i was involved with to tell the truth,because the truth never changes,but as i knew so well,people did.I knew… — Mike Gayle Copy Share Image
“I knew that telling the story hadn’t healed me, but it was never supposed to heal me. My story was supposed to be a… — Kassi Underwood Copy Share Image
“A lot of the signs are evident before the lies start and the actions deviate. Many women do not even want to hear the… — A.H. Carlisle III Copy Share Image
“She was convinced that women were as often victims of themselves as they were of men.” — John Irving 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