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My fiction is a very accurate reflection of the world we live in. Certainly, in some stories, that reflection is amplified but America elected a man who enjoys grabbing women by their pussies.

Roxane Gay

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Roxane Gay
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: October 15
Essayist
Journalist
Novelist
Scrabble Player
Writer
Omaha
Nebraska
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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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Fiction offers escape but it also interrogates the world we live in, whether the past, present or future.
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I love writing fiction because I can totally lose myself and I get to make up the rules of the world that I'm writing.
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Somewhere along the line we started misinterpreting the First Amendment and this idea of the freedom of speech the amendment grants us. We are free to speak as we choose without fear of prosecution or persecution, but we are not free to speak as we choose without consequence.
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There's certainly a portion of my brain that is always tuned to making wry observations about the world, but that portion of my brain was alive and well before Twitter.
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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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Most of the time, writing is a lot of fun, and not a small amount of self-medication.
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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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Books are often far more than just books.
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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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I am interested in intense, unbreakable emotional connections and oftentimes, such connections can be found between siblings.
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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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I can't please everyone. I am trying not to let the pressure consume me.
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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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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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Twitter is my happy place. I am not there to overthink 140 characters.
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Oftentimes, when a woman demands accountability, respect, or consideration, she is crazy or nagging or whatever.
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