Roxane Gay Quotes

Há, no entanto, uma ansiedade em ser você mesmo. Existe a pergunta que assombra, um e se? que está sempre no ar. E se o que sou nunca for suficiente? E se eu nunca for certa o suficiente para alguém?

I am a bad feminist because I never want to be placed on a Feminist Pedestal. People who are placed on pedestals are expected to pose, perfectly. Then they get knocked off when they fuck it up. I regu...

I am always holding on to the hope of tomorrow.

I belong with these things, they are mine, so I do not stay long.

I know that hunger is in the mind and the body and the heart and the soul.

I try to keep my feminism simple. I know feminism is complex and evolving and flawed. I know feminism will not and cannot fix everything. I believe in equal opportunities for women and men. I believe...

I want to be able to hold the why in my hands, to dissect it or tear it apart or burn it and read the ashes even though I am afraid of what I will do with what I see there.

I wanted that kind of steady, true love for myself, and I wanted a relationship where I could be independent but loved and looked after at the same time.

I wanted to tear the skin from her face so I could see the blood of a woman who would stand by and do nothing while another woman endured what was being done to me. The

I was called a feminist, and what I heard was, You are an angry, sex-hating, man-hating victim lady person. This caricature is how feminists have been warped by the people who fear feminism most, the...

I wondered why she thought she could reveal that casual racism in mixed company. I wondered, as I often do about people, what she truly thinks about me.

If I must share my story, I want to do so on my terms, without the attention that inevitably follows. I do not want pity or appreciation or advice. I am not brave or heroic. I am not strong. I am not...

If rape culture had a downtown, it would smell like Axe body spray and that perfume they put on tampons to make your vagina smell like laundry detergent.

If readers discount certain topics as unworthy of their attention, if readers are going to judge a book by its cover or feel excluded from a certain kind of book because the cover is, say, pink, the f...

If you’re reading to find friends, you’re in deep trouble. We read to find life, in all its possibilities. The relevant question isn’t Is this a potential friend for me? but Is this character alive?

In the New York Times Book Review Chloë Schama writes, A plague of women’s backs is upon us in the book cover world.

It had never crossed my mind before that it was possible for a child to be educated in this country and make it to college unable to read at a college level.

It is far more important to discuss power than to exhaustively regurgitate the harmful cultural effects of power structures where women are consistently marginalized. We already know the effects. We l...

It is hard to write about happy things when you can never escape the kind of cold that sinks into your bones and stays there. I am in Siberia, I decide. I am comforted by thoughts of exile, cold solac...

It makes perfect sense that many of us obsess over our bodies. There is nothing more inescapable. Our bodies moves us through our lives. They bring pleasure and pain. Sometimes our bodies serve us wel...