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I am a bad feminist and a good woman. I am trying to become better in how I think and say and do - without abandoning what makes me human.

Roxane Gay

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Roxane Gay
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: October 15
Essayist
Journalist
Novelist
Scrabble Player
Writer
Omaha
Nebraska
Trying
Feminist
Good
Woman
Think
Makes
Thinking
Become
Better
Human
Humans
Without
Abandoning

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When feminism falls short of our expectations, we decide the problem is with feminism rather than with the flawed people who act in the name of the movement.
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We need to stop playing Privilege or Oppression Olympics because we'll never get anywhere until we find more effective ways of talking through difference. We should be able to say, “This is my truth,” and have that truth stand without a hundred clamoring voices shouting, giving the impression that multiple truths cannot coexist.
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I see my tweets as a current joining a bunch of other currents in the world's craziest ocean.
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Diversity in literature is, in part, about representation - who is telling the stories and who stories are told about.
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You don't necessarily have to do anything once you acknowledge your privilege. You don't have to apologize for it. You need to understand the extent of your privilege, the consequences of your privilege, and remain aware that people who are different from you move through and experience the world in ways you might never know anything about.
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I would like to believe that most people, regardless of gender, are good and kind. The good men in my stories are the rule. It's the bad men that are the exception and because I tend toward the dark in my fiction, you see more of the exception than the rule.
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Twitter is my happy place. I am not there to overthink 140 characters.
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I wrote myself back together. I wrote myself toward a stronger version of myself . . . Through writing and feminism, I also found that if I was a little bit brave, another woman might hear me and see me and recognize that none of us are the nothing the world tries to tell us we are.
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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.
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Truth can hurt so very much.
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When you look past the image, a celebrity is merely a person you know nothing about.
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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 same people who have the most to lose when feminism succeeds.
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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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Feminism is definitely a part of everything I do.
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Readers need to stop assuming characters are white if race isn't explicitly defined.
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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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Violence is a common part of far too many women's lives.
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Nemeses aren't born. They are made.
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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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I read constantly because there is so much to learn from the writing in the world.
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