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Bad Feminist: Essays

From the author of Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body, the New York Times Bestseller and Best Book of the Year at NPR, the Boston Globe, Newsweek, and many moreA collection of essays spanning politics, criticism, an

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“Change requires intent and effort. It really is that simple.”

— Roxane Gay, amazon.com

Tagged: Change, Effort, Intent

“I have never considered compassion a finite resource. I would not want to live in a world where such was the case.”

— Roxane Gay, amazon.com

Tagged: Compassion

“When you can’t find someone to follow, you have to find a way to lead by example.”

— Roxane Gay, amazon.com

Tagged: Lead by example

“It's hard not to feel humorless, as a woman and a feminist, to recognize misogyny in so many forms, some great and some small, and know you're not imagining things. It's hard to be told to lighten up because if you lighten up any more, you're going to float the fuck away.”

— Roxane Gay, amazon.com

Tagged: feminism, Misogyny

“Books are often far more than just books.”

— Roxane Gay, amazon.com

Tagged: Books

“One of my biggest weaknesses, one that has always shamed me, is that I have always been lonely. I’ve struggled to make friends because I can be socially awkward, because I’m weird, because I live in my head.”

— Roxane Gay, amazon.com

Tagged: No Friends, Lonely, Socially Awkward, H4D-53

“Some women being empowered does not prove the patriarchy is dead. It proves that some of us are lucky.”

— Roxane Gay, amazon.com

“I learned a long time ago that life introduces young people to situations they are in no way prepared for, even good girls, lucky girls who want for nothing. Sometimes, when you least expect it, you become the girl in the woods. You lose your name because another one is forced on you. You think you…”

— Roxane Gay, amazon.com