Top 93 Quotes by Roxane Gay

About Roxane Gay

These are some quotes by American author Roxane Gay Writer.

It's disheartening that people think that Donald Sterling is the outlier and that he's the exception and not the rule.

It's disheartening that people think that Donald Sterling is the outlier and that he's the exception and not the rule.

Roxane Gay

No one is helped when cultural critics use their voices irresponsibly.

No one is helped when cultural critics use their voices irresponsibly.

Roxane Gay

I keep trying to imagine a universe in which too many public figures declaring themselves feminists would be a bad thing.

I keep trying to imagine a universe in which too many public figures declaring themselves feminists would be a bad thing.

Roxane Gay

I tend to write three to four hours a day, depending - oftentimes very late at night. When I write on Twitter, I do other things: I'm working, grading, or reading, and I'm procrastinating, and I'll pop on Twitter and be like, 'Hey, what's up? Yogurt's delicious.'

Roxane Gay

I live in Indiana and teach at Purdue University, a wonderful school with some of the brightest students I have ever had the privilege of working with. My colleagues are powerful and intelligent and kind. The cost of living is low, the prairie is wide, and on clear nights, I can see all the stars in the sky above.

Roxane Gay

I have never dreamed of being a princess. I have not longed for Prince Charming. I have and do long for something resembling a happily ever after. I am supposed to be above such flights of fantasy, but I am not. I am enamored of fairy tales.

Roxane Gay

I want to take the time to think through how I feel and why I feel. I don't want to feign expertise on matters I know nothing about for the purpose of offering someone else my immediate reaction for their consumption.

Roxane Gay

I reject the idea that when young women make choices with which we disagree, they are acting without autonomy.

I reject the idea that when young women make choices with which we disagree, they are acting without autonomy.

Roxane Gay

This is the real problem feminism faces. Too many people are willfully ignorant about what the word means and what the movement aims to achieve.

This is the real problem feminism faces. Too many people are willfully ignorant about what the word means and what the movement aims to achieve.

Roxane Gay

I was in love with the idea of love, so I created elaborate fictions for my relationships - fictions that allowed me to believe that what any given paramour and I shared looked a lot like love.

I was in love with the idea of love, so I created elaborate fictions for my relationships - fictions that allowed me to believe that what any given paramour and I shared looked a lot like love.

Roxane Gay

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