Quote by Roxane Gay Download Open image ““The body is not a fortress, no matter what we may do to make it such.”” — Roxane Gay ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Each of us is an impregnable fortress that can be laid waste only from within.” — Timothy Flynn Copy Share Image
“are a little fortress; inside them you can feel safe and powerful. Through your little fortress of lies you try to run your life… — William Paul Young Copy Share Image
“I no longer need the body fortress I built. I need to tear down some of the walls, and I need to tear down… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
“We build fortresses around ourselves in order to protect the things that are important to us, and we forget that what's really important to… — Judith Katzir Copy Share Image
“They need me to be their sturdy unbending fortress. So here I am.” — Krista Ritchie Copy Share Image
“Let the sandcastle collapse. In its place, I will build a fortress—one that the waves of nature and time could never destroy.” — Bella Forrest Copy Share Image
“Fortresses may or may not be useful according to the times; if they do good in one way, they do harm in another.” — Nancy Goldstone Copy Share Image
“life is our battlefield. We must do what we know to do, not what we want to do.” — Brent Weeks Copy Share Image
“Today we must begin again. Step by small step, without any more protection than comes from our own bodies.” — Eduardo Galeano 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