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Truth can hurt so very much.
Roxane Gay
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Roxane Gay
Age: 49
Born: 1974
Born: October 15
Essayist
Journalist
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Scrabble Player
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Omaha
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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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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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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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Some women being empowered does not prove the patriarchy is dead. It proves that some of us are lucky.
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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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It's gut instinct that helps me determine how to write a story. I love the surreal because I am faced with the challenge of making the unbelievable believable. That challenge is thrilling.
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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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