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I am human. I am messy. I'm not trying to be an example. I am not trying to be perfect. I am not trying to say I have all the answers. I am not trying to say I'm right. I am just trying - trying to support what I believe in, trying to do some good in this world, trying to make some noise with my writing while also being myself.

Roxane Gay

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Roxane Gay
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: October 15
Essayist
Journalist
Novelist
Scrabble Player
Writer
Omaha
Nebraska
Trying
Answers
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Support
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Perfect
Good
Also
World
Human
Messy
Humans
Noise
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When you can’t find someone to follow, you have to find a way to lead by example.
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I write for myself, first and foremost and I also write for people, mostly women, who just want to be seen and heard and all too often aren't.
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Some women being empowered does not prove the patriarchy is dead. It proves that some of us are lucky.
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I'm fat positive, in that I don't see fat as a bad thing. But what I do see as a bad thing is how I'm treated. I can have the most positive outlook in the world, but that is not going to change how hecklers and people walking down the street are yelling at me.
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Oftentimes, when a woman demands accountability, respect, or consideration, she is crazy or nagging or whatever.
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Good fiction challenges us as much as it entertains and these days, we could do with both of these things.
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Most of my favorite tweets go completely ignored but most of my favorite tweets are probably really lame or inside jokes between me and my [redacted]. See what I did there?
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Truth can hurt so very much.
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I don't want the success to go away. I don't want it to seem unearned.
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When you look past the image, a celebrity is merely a person you know nothing about.
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With my writing, I generally just pretend that no one's reading it. I allow myself that delusion so that I can write the things that I write.
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Nemeses aren't born. They are made.
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We don't all have to believe in the same feminism. Feminism can be pluralistic so long as we respect the different feminisms we carry with us, so long as we give enough of a damn to try to minimize the fractures among us. Feminism will better succeed with collective effort, but feminist success can also rise out of personal conduct.
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I approach most things in life with a dangerous level of confidence to balance my generally low self-esteem.
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