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Truth can hurt so very much.
Roxane Gay
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Roxane Gay
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: October 15
Essayist
Journalist
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Scrabble Player
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Omaha
Nebraska
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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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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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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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