“I love Twitter. It doesn't keep me from writing and I think it's a really convenient scapegoat when the truth is that the real issue is self-control. I am totally fine admitting i have none. I'm not going to blame Twitter for affecting my writing. And also, Twitter doesn't affect my writing.” ThinkingWritingRealSelfIssuesFineTruth IsBlameSelf ControlConvenientAdmittingScapegoat Author:Roxane Gay
“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.” ThinkingTryingHumansFeministGood Woman Author:Roxane Gay
“Feminism has neglected the needs of woman of color and people of color in general. But I don't think it means that we should overlook feminism as having nothing valuable to contribute.” PeopleThinkingNeedsShouldMeanFeminismColorValuableNeglected Author:Roxane Gay
“I love romantic comedies. I know how terrible they are, but I love them! And I don't think that makes me less of a feminist.” ThinkingKnowsKnow HowComedyTerribleFeministRomantic Love Author:Roxane Gay
“The designation is useful and necessary and sometimes limiting but it is only limiting to people who think, for example, that African-American literature couldn't possibly be something they could be interested in or relate to. They have limited imaginations, which is sad.” PeopleThinkingSometimesLiteratureImaginationExampleAfrican AmericanRelateAmerican LiteratureDesignation Author:Roxane Gay
“I think hunger is a natural state of being for most people. I mean, hunger is a desire - and you don't only have physical hunger, you have emotional hunger. A lot of my hungers are, in fact, emotional. I think a lot of fat people's hungers are emotional. There are things we very much want, and it can be so difficult to satisfy those hungers. Yet we try. We try so hard.” PeopleThinkingTryingMeanDesireDifficultNaturalEmotionalHunger Author:Roxane Gay
“Generally, the ways we discuss the fat body pathologize it; we treat it as a medical problem and/or a social problem that must be solved. "Morbid obesity" is in many ways saying we are the walking dead. Or walking to our death. And that is no way to live, with that sort of moniker hanging over your head at all times. I think it forces fat people to internalize a lot of unnecessary self-loathing.” PeopleThinkingProblemWalkingMedicalAll TimeOver YouUnnecessaryObesityMorbidWalking Dead Author:Roxane Gay
