Best quotes by Roxane Gay on Women

Checkout quotes by Roxane Gay on Women

  • Throughout any given season of 'The Bachelor,' the women exclaim that the experience is like a fairy tale. They suffer the machinations of reality television, pursuing - along with several other women, often inebriated - the promise of happily ever after.
    - Roxane Gay
  • I think there are a lot of rules for women. We have a lot of expectations and a lot of rules for women. So we're expected to march in a straight line, and when we don't, all hell breaks loose.
    - Roxane Gay
  • I reject the idea that when young women make choices with which we disagree, they are acting without autonomy.
    - Roxane Gay
  • Margaret Sanger didn't just introduce the idea of birth control into our culture at large, she freed women from indenture to their bodies.
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  • Placing Margaret Sanger on the $20 bill will remind us of what she has done for women and our reproductive health and how the fight for reproductive freedom is an ongoing one.
    - Roxane Gay
  • Feminism is just an idea. It's a philosophy. It's about the equality of women in all realms. It's not about man-hating. It's not about being humorless. We have to let go of these misconceptions that have plagued feminism for 40, 50 years.
    - Roxane Gay
  • When I drive to work, I listen to thuggish rap at a very loud volume, even though the lyrics are degrading to women and offend me to my core. I am mortified by my music choices.
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  • If you feel like it's hard to be friends with women, consider that maybe women aren't the problem. Maybe it's just you.
    - Roxane Gay