Roxane Gay Quotes

Não queira nada que não seja o melhor para seus amigos, porque, quando eles são felizes e bem-sucedidos, provavelmente se tornará mais fácil para você ser feliz também.

Like most people, I’m full of contradictions, but I also don’t want to be treated like shit for being a woman.

I’ve been forced to look at my guiltiest secrets. I’ve cut myself wide open. I am exposed. That is not comfortable. That is not easy.

I’ve decided that I will not allow my body to dictate my existence, at least, not entirely. I will not hide from the world.

Nostalgia is powerful. It is natural, human, to long for the past, particularly when we can remember our histories as better than they were. Life happens faster than I can comprehend.

Sherman Alexie wrote, There are millions of teens who read because they are sad and lonely and enraged. They read because they live in an often-terrible world. They read because they believe, despite...

I know this world. I live in it too. There's no shelter or safety or escape from the cruel stares and comments, the too-small seats, the too-small everything for your too-big body.

Kindness bridges many differences too, and so does a love of One Tree Hill or Lost or beautiful books or terrible movies.

She tries to walk not too fast and not too slow. She doesn’t want to attract any attention. She pretends she doesn’t hear the whistles and catcalls and lewd comments.Sometimes she forgets and leaves h...

Mr. Peter was sorry for every terrible thing he did to us. Mr. Peter couldn’t resist two beautiful little girls. Mr. Peter wanted us so bad he couldn’t help himself. Mr. Peter was an old man now, coul...

If your man or woman is a scrub, just own it so you and your friends can talk about more interesting things. My go-to explanation is I am dating an asshole because I’m lazy.

Life, apparently, requires a trigger warning. This is the uncomfortable truth: everything is a trigger for someone. There are things you cannot tell just by looking at someone. We all have history. Yo...

Marcy leaned forward to study the landscaping, tall cypresses encircled by Peruvian lilies looming over the guardhouse. She sighed, said, This is a bit much. Her husband said, Baby, people love the il...

There is a comfort, I suppose, to consuming violence contained in ninety-minute segments, muted by commercials for household goods and communicated to us by former television stars with feathered bang...

I excused myself and ran to the restroom, where in the privacy of my stall, I whispered, I beat you, I beat you, I beat you. There was fist pumping.

I went back to school, and my classmates admired my new body, offered me compliments, wanted to hang out with me. That was the first time I realized that weight loss, thinness really, was social curre...

There is a happily-ever-after, but the price exacted is terribly high. It is frightening to consider how many women might be willing to pay that price.

Marissa Mayer, who was appointed president and CEO of Yahoo! in July 2012, said in an interview, I don’t think that I would consider myself a feminist. I think that I certainly believe in equal rights...

There are injustices great and small, and even if we can only fight the small ones, at least we are fighting.

If you are reading this essay, you have some kind of privilege.