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Roxane Gay Quote: “The thing about shame is that there are depths. I have no idea where the bottom of my shame resides.”

151. “The thing about shame is that there are depths. I have no idea where the bottom of my shame resides.”

Roxane Gay Quote: “Girls have been written and represented in popular culture in many different ways. Most of these representations have been largely unsatisfying because they never get girlhood quite right. It is not possible for girlhood to be represented wholly – girlhood is too vast and too individual an experience. We can only try to represent girlhood in ways that are varied and recognizable. All too often, however, this doesn’t happen.”

152. “Girls have been written and represented in popular culture in many different ways. Most of these representations have been largely unsatisfying because they never get girlhood quite right. It is not possible for girlhood to be represented wholly – girlhood is too vast and too individual an experience. We can only try to represent girlhood in ways that are varied and recognizable. All too often, however, this doesn’t happen.”

Roxane Gay Quote: “Death is a tragedy whether it is the death of one girl-woman in London or seventy-seven men, women, and children in Norway. We know this, but perhaps it needs to be said over and over again so we do not forget. I have never considered compassion a finite resource. I would not want to live in a world where such was the case.”

153. “Death is a tragedy whether it is the death of one girl-woman in London or seventy-seven men, women, and children in Norway. We know this, but perhaps it needs to be said over and over again so we do not forget. I have never considered compassion a finite resource. I would not want to live in a world where such was the case.”

Roxane Gay Quote: “Few are willing to consider the possibility that trigger warnings might be ineffective, impractical, and necessary for creating safe spaces all at once.”

154. “Few are willing to consider the possibility that trigger warnings might be ineffective, impractical, and necessary for creating safe spaces all at once.”

Roxane Gay Quote: “I am not easy to love but I am well loved. I try to love well in return.”

155. “I am not easy to love but I am well loved. I try to love well in return.”

Roxane Gay Quote: “When I tried to push him away, he only held on to me more tightly. I have always appreciated how he never lets me go. I need that. My natural instinct is for flight and the safety of solitude.”

156. “When I tried to push him away, he only held on to me more tightly. I have always appreciated how he never lets me go. I need that. My natural instinct is for flight and the safety of solitude.”

Roxane Gay Quote: “Feminism has neglected the needs of woman of color and people of color in general. But I don’t think it means that we should overlook feminism as having nothing valuable to contribute.”

157. “Feminism has neglected the needs of woman of color and people of color in general. But I don’t think it means that we should overlook feminism as having nothing valuable to contribute.”

Roxane Gay Quote: “Mona is my best friend. Wherever she has gone, the whole of our lives, I have tried to follow. Michael and I moved to Miami because she was there. Wherever she is feels more like home.”

158. “Mona is my best friend. Wherever she has gone, the whole of our lives, I have tried to follow. Michael and I moved to Miami because she was there. Wherever she is feels more like home.”

Roxane Gay Quote: “Anisha tells me, “A good therapist knows you have to live in the house while you remodel.”

159. “Anisha tells me, “A good therapist knows you have to live in the house while you remodel.”

Roxane Gay Quote: “It is untenable to go through life as an exposed wound.”

160. “It is untenable to go through life as an exposed wound.”

Roxane Gay Quote: “A different day has come, though. I flinch less and less when I am touched. I don’t always see gentleness as the calm before the storm because, more often than not, I can trust that no storm is coming. I harbor less hatred toward myself. I try to forgive myself for my trespasses.”

161. “A different day has come, though. I flinch less and less when I am touched. I don’t always see gentleness as the calm before the storm because, more often than not, I can trust that no storm is coming. I harbor less hatred toward myself. I try to forgive myself for my trespasses.”

Roxane Gay Quote: “Just write and love what you’re writing. And if you’re not loving what you’re writing, take a look at why and fix that.”

162. “Just write and love what you’re writing. And if you’re not loving what you’re writing, take a look at why and fix that.”

Roxane Gay Quote: “Black woman are rarely allowed their femininity.”

163. “Black woman are rarely allowed their femininity.”

Roxane Gay Quote: “Bad feminism seems like the only way I can both embrace myself as a feminist and be myself, and so I write. I chatter away on Twitter about everything that makes me angry and all the small things that bring me joy. I write blog posts about the meals I cook as I try to take better care of myself, and with each new entry, I realize that I’m undestroying myself after years of allowing myself to stay damaged.”

164. “Bad feminism seems like the only way I can both embrace myself as a feminist and be myself, and so I write. I chatter away on Twitter about everything that makes me angry and all the small things that bring me joy. I write blog posts about the meals I cook as I try to take better care of myself, and with each new entry, I realize that I’m undestroying myself after years of allowing myself to stay damaged.”

Roxane Gay Quote: “Doctors generally adhere to the Hippocratic oath, where they swear to abide by an ethical code, where they swear to act, always, in their patients’ best interests. Unless the patient is overweight. I hate going to the doctor because they seem wholly unwilling to follow the Hippocratic oath when it comes to treating obese patients. The words “first do no harm” do not apply to unruly bodies. There.”

165. “Doctors generally adhere to the Hippocratic oath, where they swear to abide by an ethical code, where they swear to act, always, in their patients’ best interests. Unless the patient is overweight. I hate going to the doctor because they seem wholly unwilling to follow the Hippocratic oath when it comes to treating obese patients. The words “first do no harm” do not apply to unruly bodies. There.”

Roxane Gay Quote: “My husband’s family is religious. His relatives believe in God. Their God is angry and unkind because they made him in their image.”

166. “My husband’s family is religious. His relatives believe in God. Their God is angry and unkind because they made him in their image.”

Roxane Gay Quote: “A man has never told me he likes me. Like is more interesting than love.”

167. “A man has never told me he likes me. Like is more interesting than love.”

Roxane Gay Quote: “Reproductive freedom is a talking point. Reproductive freedom is a campaign issue. Reproductive freedom can be repealed or restricted. Reproductive freedom is not an inalienable right even though it should be.”

168. “Reproductive freedom is a talking point. Reproductive freedom is a campaign issue. Reproductive freedom can be repealed or restricted. Reproductive freedom is not an inalienable right even though it should be.”

Roxane Gay Quote: “Living in my body has expanded my empathy for other people and the truths of their bodies.”

169. “Living in my body has expanded my empathy for other people and the truths of their bodies.”

Roxane Gay Quote: “It’s great to remember that reading is my first love.”

170. “It’s great to remember that reading is my first love.”

Roxane Gay Quote: “When your truth is so inherently questioned, it is easier to say nothing than anything at all.”

171. “When your truth is so inherently questioned, it is easier to say nothing than anything at all.”

Roxane Gay Quote: “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.”

172. “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 Quote: “My body is not a joke or fodder for amusement, but, I suppose, to many people, it is. My.”

173. “My body is not a joke or fodder for amusement, but, I suppose, to many people, it is. My.”

Roxane Gay Quote: “We are, after all, supposed to be one nation indivisible. Only if we act as such, might we begin to truly effect change.”

174. “We are, after all, supposed to be one nation indivisible. Only if we act as such, might we begin to truly effect change.”

Roxane Gay Quote: “With age comes self-awareness, or something that looks like self-awareness, and so I try to be on the lookout for patterns of behavior, choices I’m making where I’m trying too hard, giving too much, reaching too intently for being right when right is what someone else wants me to be. It’s scary, though, trying to be yourself and hoping yourself is enough. It’s scary believing that you, as you are, could never be enough.”

175. “With age comes self-awareness, or something that looks like self-awareness, and so I try to be on the lookout for patterns of behavior, choices I’m making where I’m trying too hard, giving too much, reaching too intently for being right when right is what someone else wants me to be. It’s scary, though, trying to be yourself and hoping yourself is enough. It’s scary believing that you, as you are, could never be enough.”

Roxane Gay Quote: “Assuming Sandberg’s advice is completely useless for working-class women is just as shortsighted as claiming her advice needs to be completely applicable to all women. And let’s be frank: if Sandberg chose to offer career advice for working-class women, a group she clearly knows little about, she would have been just as harshly criticized for overstepping her bounds.”

176. “Assuming Sandberg’s advice is completely useless for working-class women is just as shortsighted as claiming her advice needs to be completely applicable to all women. And let’s be frank: if Sandberg chose to offer career advice for working-class women, a group she clearly knows little about, she would have been just as harshly criticized for overstepping her bounds.”

Roxane Gay Quote: “I’ve been thinking about how so much testimony is demanded of women, and still, there are those who doubt our stories. There.”

177. “I’ve been thinking about how so much testimony is demanded of women, and still, there are those who doubt our stories. There.”

Roxane Gay Quote: “I didn’t say anything on social media, though relatives tried to tag me in supportive status updates, which I did my best to untag myself from. I didn’t want to be a part of their mourning. I didn’t want to be involved in someone else’s grief when I knew so little about how to deal with my own.”

178. “I didn’t say anything on social media, though relatives tried to tag me in supportive status updates, which I did my best to untag myself from. I didn’t want to be a part of their mourning. I didn’t want to be involved in someone else’s grief when I knew so little about how to deal with my own.”

Roxane Gay Quote: “I get angry when women disavow feminism and shun the feminist label but say they support all the advances born of feminism because I see a disconnect that does not need to be there. I get angry but I understand and hope someday we will live in a culture where we don’t need to distance ourselves from the feminist label, where the label doesn’t make us afraid of being alone, of being too different, of wanting too much.”

179. “I get angry when women disavow feminism and shun the feminist label but say they support all the advances born of feminism because I see a disconnect that does not need to be there. I get angry but I understand and hope someday we will live in a culture where we don’t need to distance ourselves from the feminist label, where the label doesn’t make us afraid of being alone, of being too different, of wanting too much.”

Roxane Gay Quote: “Here I am showing you the ferocity of my hunger. Here I am, finally freeing myself to be vulnerable and terribly human. Here I am, reveling in that freedom. Here. See what I hunger for and what my truth has allowed me to create.”

180. “Here I am showing you the ferocity of my hunger. Here I am, finally freeing myself to be vulnerable and terribly human. Here I am, reveling in that freedom. Here. See what I hunger for and what my truth has allowed me to create.”

Roxane Gay Quote: “I get so scared but the world somehow makes sense there. Being with you feels like that.”

181. “I get so scared but the world somehow makes sense there. Being with you feels like that.”

Roxane Gay Quote: “As with Inglourious Basterds using World War II, Tarantino once again managed to find a traumatic cultural experience of a marginalized people that has little to do with his own history, and used that cultural experience to exercise his hubris for making farcically violent, vaguely funny movies that set to right historical wrongs from a very limited, privileged position.”

182. “As with Inglourious Basterds using World War II, Tarantino once again managed to find a traumatic cultural experience of a marginalized people that has little to do with his own history, and used that cultural experience to exercise his hubris for making farcically violent, vaguely funny movies that set to right historical wrongs from a very limited, privileged position.”

Roxane Gay Quote: “Social networks are more than just repositories for trivial, snap judgments; they are more than merely convenient outlets for mindless joy and outrage. They offer more than the common ground and the solace we may find during culturally significant moments. Social networks also provide us with something of a flawed but necessary conscience, a constant reminder that commitment, compassion, and advocacy neither can nor ever should be finite.”

183. “Social networks are more than just repositories for trivial, snap judgments; they are more than merely convenient outlets for mindless joy and outrage. They offer more than the common ground and the solace we may find during culturally significant moments. Social networks also provide us with something of a flawed but necessary conscience, a constant reminder that commitment, compassion, and advocacy neither can nor ever should be finite.”

Roxane Gay Quote: “When he finished talking, I said, “Your mother did not deserve the unwanted attentions of a man like my father.” I said, “I did not deserve the unwanted attentions of a man like you. It is often women who pay the price for what men want.”

184. “When he finished talking, I said, “Your mother did not deserve the unwanted attentions of a man like my father.” I said, “I did not deserve the unwanted attentions of a man like you. It is often women who pay the price for what men want.”

Roxane Gay Quote: “She said, ‘There’s no mystery to keeping a man.’ She dabbed at my lipstick with a tissue she had been holding, folded, in the palm of her hand. She said, ‘You do whatever sick thing he wants, when he wants, and you’ll never have a problem.’ That was the only advice she has ever given me. She and my father divorced when I was nine.”

185. “She said, ‘There’s no mystery to keeping a man.’ She dabbed at my lipstick with a tissue she had been holding, folded, in the palm of her hand. She said, ‘You do whatever sick thing he wants, when he wants, and you’ll never have a problem.’ That was the only advice she has ever given me. She and my father divorced when I was nine.”

Roxane Gay Quote: “I assumed that he was going to make fun of me because I had long become accustomed to people, men mostly, calling out cruelties from their cars, their bicycles, when they walked on by – letting me know exactly what they thought of my body.”

186. “I assumed that he was going to make fun of me because I had long become accustomed to people, men mostly, calling out cruelties from their cars, their bicycles, when they walked on by – letting me know exactly what they thought of my body.”

Roxane Gay Quote: “Sometimes we try to convince ourselves of things that are not true, reframing the past to better explain the present.”

187. “Sometimes we try to convince ourselves of things that are not true, reframing the past to better explain the present.”

Roxane Gay Quote: “For so long, I gave in to my self-loathing. I refused to allow myself the simple pleasure of accepting who I am and how I live and love and think and see the world. But then, I got older and I cared less about what other people think.”

188. “For so long, I gave in to my self-loathing. I refused to allow myself the simple pleasure of accepting who I am and how I live and love and think and see the world. But then, I got older and I cared less about what other people think.”

Roxane Gay Quote: “I’m tired of feeling like I should be grateful when popular culture deigns to acknowledge the experiences of people who are not white, middle class or wealthy, and heterosexual.”

189. “I’m tired of feeling like I should be grateful when popular culture deigns to acknowledge the experiences of people who are not white, middle class or wealthy, and heterosexual.”

Roxane Gay Quote: “I have tried to make peace with this body. I have tried to love or at least tolerate this body in a world that displays nothing but contempt for it.”

190. “I have tried to make peace with this body. I have tried to love or at least tolerate this body in a world that displays nothing but contempt for it.”

Roxane Gay Quote: “It is an amazing thing,” my father once told me after Christophe was born, “how much a child loves a parent. That kind of love terrifies me.”

191. “It is an amazing thing,” my father once told me after Christophe was born, “how much a child loves a parent. That kind of love terrifies me.”

Roxane Gay Quote: “Perhaps, then, unlikable characters, the ones who are the most human, are also the ones who are the most alive. Perhaps this intimacy makes us uncomfortable because we don’t dare be so alive.”

192. “Perhaps, then, unlikable characters, the ones who are the most human, are also the ones who are the most alive. Perhaps this intimacy makes us uncomfortable because we don’t dare be so alive.”

Roxane Gay Quote: “I was too smart and that made people uncomfortable – most folks where we’ve lived our whole lives don’t trust too much intelligence in a woman. There is also the problem of my eyes – they don’t hide anything. If I don’t care for a person, my eyes make it plain. I don’t care for most. Folks are generally comfortable with the small lies they tell each other. They don’t know what to do with someone like me, who mostly doesn’t bother with small lies.”

193. “I was too smart and that made people uncomfortable – most folks where we’ve lived our whole lives don’t trust too much intelligence in a woman. There is also the problem of my eyes – they don’t hide anything. If I don’t care for a person, my eyes make it plain. I don’t care for most. Folks are generally comfortable with the small lies they tell each other. They don’t know what to do with someone like me, who mostly doesn’t bother with small lies.”

Roxane Gay Quote: “We live in a strange and terrible time for women. There are days when I think it has always been a strange and terrible time to be a woman. Womanhood feels more strange and terrible now because progress has not served women as well as it has served men.”

194. “We live in a strange and terrible time for women. There are days when I think it has always been a strange and terrible time to be a woman. Womanhood feels more strange and terrible now because progress has not served women as well as it has served men.”

Roxane Gay Quote: “Silence is the cruelest of cruelties.”

195. “Silence is the cruelest of cruelties.”

Roxane Gay Quote: “The thing is, I am not at all sure that feminism has ever suggested women can have it all. This notion of being able to have it all is always misattributed to feminism when really, it’s human nature to want it all – to have cake and eat it too without necessarily focusing on how we can get there and how we can make “having it all” possible for a wider range of people and not just the lucky ones.”

196. “The thing is, I am not at all sure that feminism has ever suggested women can have it all. This notion of being able to have it all is always misattributed to feminism when really, it’s human nature to want it all – to have cake and eat it too without necessarily focusing on how we can get there and how we can make “having it all” possible for a wider range of people and not just the lucky ones.”

Roxane Gay Quote: “Because I read so much, I was a romantic in my heart of hearts, but my desire to be part of a romantic story was a very intellectual, detached one. I liked the idea of a boy asking me out, taking me on a date, kissing me, but I did not want to actually be alone with a boy, because a boy could hurt me.”

197. “Because I read so much, I was a romantic in my heart of hearts, but my desire to be part of a romantic story was a very intellectual, detached one. I liked the idea of a boy asking me out, taking me on a date, kissing me, but I did not want to actually be alone with a boy, because a boy could hurt me.”

Roxane Gay Quote: “When did men become the measure? When did we collectively decide writing was more worthy if men embraced it? I suppose it was the “literary establishment” that made this decision when, for too long, men dominated the canon, and it was men whose work was elevated as worthy, who received the majority of the prestigious literary prizes and critical attention.”

198. “When did men become the measure? When did we collectively decide writing was more worthy if men embraced it? I suppose it was the “literary establishment” that made this decision when, for too long, men dominated the canon, and it was men whose work was elevated as worthy, who received the majority of the prestigious literary prizes and critical attention.”

Roxane Gay Quote: “My true loves were and still are books and writing stories and daydreaming. Sports were merely a distraction keeping me from what I really wanted to do.”

199. “My true loves were and still are books and writing stories and daydreaming. Sports were merely a distraction keeping me from what I really wanted to do.”

Roxane Gay Quote: “Want nothing but the best for your friends because when your friends are happy and successful, it’s probably going to be easier for you to be happy.”

200. “Want nothing but the best for your friends because when your friends are happy and successful, it’s probably going to be easier for you to be happy.”

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