Roxane Gay Quotes

Feminism remains something that needs to be explained to people.

I am most certainly a feminist.

This is the real problem feminism faces. Too many people are willfully ignorant about what the word means and what the movement aims to achieve.

For some reason, when I think feminism, I think, like, 'Well, you can't include men if you're talking about feminism and being a feminist,' so I get a little bit muddled. I find it to be a bit grey. Then if you say you are not a feminist, that means that you're not pro-woman!

Feminism is cancer.

Although I often find that the feminist rhetoric - not feminism - can come across as simple-minded, self-regarding, nuance-averse and reductive - biology to physiology, history to psychology, procreation to gynecology, and so on - I have come to realize that we should all be feminists.

It was actually having a son made me think about feminism.

Young girls getting into feminism.

Feminism is to sexism what black nationalism is to racism; the most rational response to the problem.

I wanted to make feminism more accessible. And I really wanted to engage with my own generation, one that is increasingly speaking in an audio/video multimedia language.

Feminism is the single most powerful social movement of our time, one that addresses every aspect of human and social life.

I never went to college and I was raised in Arkansas so there wasn't a lot of academic language being thrown around my house. We weren't idiots, but I didn't have that access to academic feminism. I had to realize, on my own, that feminism is not just about how far ahead you can get in a job and it isn't about not wearing makeup. It isn't about not watching your waistline. I had to recreate the world entirely.

Feminists don't like me, and I don't like them.

Our daughters were coming of age during a rising consciousness about gender equality. Throughout their school years - from kindergarten through graduate school, 1972 to 1992 - women were starting to take their places in areas traditionally reserved mostly for men.

That attitude toward women as objects may have worked for the late Sixties, but it doesn't do so now.

I feel very strongly that young women have regressed a little bit. But I do get all preachy about it.

I'm a feminist, of course, and I feel as if I'm very politically correct, although I do question what's P.C. and what's not - I don't just accept what I'm told.

Now my mother, interestingly enough, was not a feminist in her own mind.

We think of feminism as an academic subject, but it's not. If you think feminism is academic, you think there's a right or wrong.

I am a humanist not a feminist. There's a big difference.

I don't think if you looked up all the main points of feminism I would tick every one essentially myself.

Has feminism made us all more conscious? I think it has. Feminist critiques of anthropological masculine bias have been quite important, and they have increased my sensitivity to that kind of issue.

I don't think that I would consider myself a feminist. I think that I certainly believe in equal rights, I believe that women are just as capable, if not more so in a lot of different dimensions, but I don't, I think have, sort of, the militant drive and the sort of, the chip on the shoulder that sometimes comes with that.

There's been the same kind of demonizing of the word 'feminism' as words like 'liberal,' 'affirmative action,' and so on.

I feel like a feminist is gender equality.