Roxane Gay Quote
Anger is always reserved for someone else. And yet, I've been in a room who escaped a war, who lost her father in ethnic cleansing, whose mother burned her hair, whose cousin raped her. 'What right do I have to be angry, when I am alive?' she said.Anger is the privilege of the truly broken, and yet, I've never met a woman who was broken enough that she allowed herself to be angry.An angry woman must answer for herself. The reasons for her anger must be picked over, examined, and debated.
Roxane Gay
Anger is always reserved for someone else. And yet, I've been in a room who escaped a war, who lost her father in ethnic cleansing, whose mother burned her hair, whose cousin raped her. 'What right do I have to be angry, when I am alive?' she said.Anger is the privilege of the truly broken, and yet, I've never met a woman who was broken enough that she allowed herself to be angry.An angry woman must answer for herself. The reasons for her anger must be picked over, examined, and debated.
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