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Roxane Gay Quotes

Total quotes: 63
“The older I get the more I realize that it is important to know the difference between when I should speak and when I should listen. I am not well-versed in many subjects that I care about so I listen and read to those who are.”
— Roxane Gay, When To Speak, When To Listen
Tagged: Tweets, Really Good Advice, Advice, Listening, Speaking, mindfulness
“Worry about your own lives and leave me alone.”
— Roxane Gay
Tagged: Where We Focus Attention, Anti-Social, Introverts
“I buried the girl I had been because she ran into all kinds of trouble. I tried to erase every memory of her, but she is still there, somewhere. She is still small and scared and ashamed, and perhaps I am writing my way back to her, trying to tell her everything she needs to hear.”
— Roxane Gay, Hunger: A Memoir of(My) Body
Tagged: erasure, Past Selves, Past
“I am stronger than I am broken.”
— Roxane Gay, Hunger: A Memoir of
Tagged: strength, Inspirational
“You have to prove that you deserve to have yourself cut open.”
— Roxane Gay, The Body That Understands What Fullness Is
Tagged: Weight, Image, Self-Image, weight loss, Bodies, Body
“It's hard not to feel humorless, as a woman and a feminist, to recognize misogyny in so many forms, some great and some small, and know you're not imagining things. It's hard to be told to lighten up because if you lighten up any more, you're going to float the fuck away.”
— Roxane Gay, Bad Feminist: Essays
Tagged: feminism, Misogyny
“I believe writers should be protected and that agents protect writers.”
— Roxane Gay
Tagged: Writers, agents, writer's protection
“I don’t really have a schedule or routine. I do what I can when I can.”
— Roxane Gay, I'm Author Roxane Gay, and This Is How I Work
Tagged: Writing, Routines, How to be a writer
“People think we're dressing for men, but please. Men don't give a fuck.”
— Roxane Gay, What Does Dressing For Work Actually Mean?
Tagged: Fashion, clothing
“Meet different people then. Also I just... don’t care about men. I don’t care if you’re a feminist or not. I have other things to do with my time and energy. Have a good week tho https://t.co/e0nOXXOyr0”
— Roxane Gay, Roxane Gay Just Doesn't Care About Men
Tagged: Twitter
“I am not looking for a man. I do not need tips on finding one. I am unbothered. I’ve found what I want and am all set. Thanks dumbass.”
— Roxane Gay
Tagged: strong independent woman, women don't need men, Self-Reliance, Self Confidence, Empowering
“Book sales are important because that’s how writers try to make a living. But no one can or should buy every book. Libraries are vital.”
— Roxane Gay
Tagged: Books, book sales, Writers, writers' earnings, Writer's Truth, libraries are important, Libraries
“Don’t make bizarre, inappropriate assumptions about things you know nothing about.”
— Roxane Gay
Tagged: jumping into conclusions, Ignorance
“Nobody has 'no voice.' We have to abandon such thinking. Some voices are louder or receive more consideration. But everyone has a voice.”
— Roxane Gay
Tagged: everyone has a voice, learn to speak up, Speak Up
“My schedule is very very intricate and planned out for quite some time. When you fuck with my schedule I get irritated.”
— Roxane Gay
Tagged: Schedules, planned schedule
“I often say that reading and writing saved my life. I mean that quite literally.”
— Roxane Gay, Hunger
Tagged: Writing, Literature Saves Lives
“Throughout my 20s and most of my 30s, I was convinced I was never going to make it as a writer.”
— Roxane Gay, Opinion | Ask Roxane: Is It Too Late to Follow My Dreams?
Tagged: Writing, How to be a writer, Artists
“Progress is not kind and human nature cannot resist the lure of possibility.”
— Roxane Gay, Ayiti
Tagged: Progress, Human Nature
“I personally think a good agent is invaluable not merely for helping you sell work and negotiate contracts but for protecting you after the sale re: touring, cover design, promotion and marketing etc.”
— Roxane Gay
Tagged: Writer's Truth, agent, writer's agent, Writing As A Career
“Another thing I’ve noticed is how for men especially 'genius' excuses terrible behavior. There are plenty of incredibly talented people who aren’t mercurial, abusive, terrible, or incapable of appropriate social behavior.”
— Roxane Gay
Tagged: Men, Guys, Sexual Harassment, sexual harassment issue, Smash The Partriarchy
“The jealousy I feel toward one of my nemeses is stoked by Snapchat. I see their snaps and want to punch their face a hundred times.”
— Roxane Gay
Tagged: Snapchat, enemies, humor
“I am certain every woman working in Hollywood has some sleazebag story. And let's not pretend it is generational. It's all of them.”
— Roxane Gay
Tagged: Hollywood, Sexual Harassment, sexual harassment issue
“A man from Washington, D.C., emailed me and told me, just in case I didn’t know, that walking three times a week is healthy and contributes to weight loss as if such a thing had never occurred to me.”
— Roxane Gay, The Body Is Unruly
Tagged: weight loss
“Write when you want or when you can or when you need to. If you write, on any schedule, you’re a writer. That’s it.”
— Roxane Gay, What do you do when you feel like nobody cares...
Tagged: Writing, How to be a writer, Quote of the Moment
“There are times when we can consume problematic pop culture, but this is not one of those times.”
— Roxane Gay, The ‘Roseanne’ Reboot Is Funny. I’m Not Going to Keep Watching.
Tagged: Roseanne, Roseanne Barr, TV, Politics, Trump Administration
“I want better work-life balance because everything in my life feels wildly skewed, and I do so much bizarre work. I know I work too much.”
— Roxane Gay, Roxane Gay and the Case for Night Owls
Tagged: Roxane Gay, Routine, schedule, Creative Process
“A writer who turns a phrase beautifully can turn me on, as can someone who makes me laugh.”
— Roxane Gay, Roxane Gay on Sexual Fantasies: "I Have a Great Many Thoughts About Channing Tatum"
Tagged: Lust, desires, Thirst, Being Thirsty, Sexual Desire, turn ons, Writers, Quote of the Moment
“He is such a beautiful man, but I do not tell him this. He would take it the wrong way. It is a strange thing in some men, this fear of their own beauty.”
— Roxane Gay, Ayiti
Tagged: Men, Relationships, Touch, Beautiful People
“I don’t know where we go from here because those of us who recognize the injustice are not the problem. Law enforcement, militarized and indifferent to black lives, is the problem.”
— Roxane Gay, Alton Sterling and When Black Lives Stop Mattering
Tagged: Black Lives Matter, protest, Movement, black lives, black lives matter organization, nyt, racism, Injustice
“I am curious, though, why no one is talking about all the bad literary men.”
— Roxane Gay
Tagged: bad literature, Literature, patriarchal society, Men, Writing
“When you can’t find someone to follow, you have to find a way to lead by example.”
— Roxane Gay, Bad Feminist: Essays
Tagged: Lead by example
“I say Alexa, and she does whatever I ask. And I actually have a friend named Alexa so it gets very confused if I say her name, too.”
— Roxane Gay, What Roxane Gay Can’t Live Without
Tagged: Products, Things We Love
“Once, my body was weak and a group of boys took advantage of that, but my body survived. It has carried me forth for more than 40 years. That counts for something.”
— Roxane Gay, The World, Wide Open — Roxane Gay Discusses Her Changing Body
Tagged: Body Image
“The promise of jobs and the myth of the white working class as the only people struggling in this country, which animates so much of our present political moment, are right there, in this sitcom.”
— Roxane Gay, The ‘Roseanne’ Reboot Is Funny. I’m Not Going to Keep Watching.
Tagged: Roseanne, Roseanne Barr, TV, Politics, Trump Administration
“It's hard to be positive about your body; oftentimes, not because you hate yourself in any way, shape or form but because the world hates you.”
— Roxane Gay, The importance of boundaries, the complexities of “body positivity” and what it’s like working with Channing Tatum
Tagged: Bodies, Body Image, Fatphobia, Opinions, Roxane Gay
“You hate yourself for it, but you crave the stranger’s unwanted touch because the fight left in you is a reminder that you haven’t been broken. You haven’t been broken.”
— Roxane Gay, Ayiti
Tagged: Stranger, Touch, Feeling
“Freedom, it seems, has a price. We are defined by what we are not and what we do not have.”
— Roxane Gay, Ayiti
Tagged: Freedom
“Everything I know about my family’s history, I know in fragments. We are the keepers of secrets. We are secrets ourselves. We try to protect each other from the geography of so much sorrow. I don’t know that we succeed.”
— Roxane Gay, Ayiti
Tagged: Family History, Sorrow, Personal History, Ancestors
“One of my biggest weaknesses, one that has always shamed me, is that I have always been lonely. I’ve struggled to make friends because I can be socially awkward, because I’m weird, because I live in my head.”
— Roxane Gay, Bad Feminist: Essays
Tagged: No Friends, Lonely, Socially Awkward, H4D-53
“As a public, we owe a debt to one another — the debt of belonging to a community. It’s time that debt was paid.”
— Roxane Gay, Is This Where We Are, America?
Tagged: Student Loan Forgiveness
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