Roxane Gay Quotes

To me, a feminist belongs in the same category as a humanist or an advocate for human rights. I don't see why someone who's a feminist should be thought of differently.

You can't be a woman and not be a feminist, I don't think. If you care about the world and the world you exist in and your rights.

Feminism, as it stands, well... stands. It has ground to a halt.

I'm a feminist in the true sense of the word. It's about equality.

As far as I'm concerned, you're a feminist by default if you're born in the Western world right now.

My nature is feminist. How could you not be a feminist and be alive? The world is full of brilliant, interesting women.

Feminism needs a political program because gender inequality has been fostered by political decisions.

I don't mind the term 'feminist.'

Feminism doesn't have a particularly constructive image, although I think there was time when it was relevant.

There is no question I consider myself a feminist, but I also think the term 'feminist' has become a topical thing to say without backing it up with any real action.

I keep saying this: If you're not a feminist, you're a bad person.

Feminism starts out being very simple, and it ends up being a world view that questions hierarchy altogether.

I feel like we need to understand feminism more as a tool to mediate, counteract, to ultimately defeat patriarchy and restore balance to our government, our culture and our ways of thinking and structuring the world. I think we've had a very "masculine" sensibility for a long time, and I think we need to go back to the roots of social imbalance. I think we have to try to right that first, and from there and all these more pressing issues will follow.

The goals of the feminist movement have not been achieved, and those who claim we're living in a post-feminist era are either sadly mistaken or tired of thinking about the whole subject.

Something you hear a lot is that feminism dead. But if feminism is dead, why do people try so hard to kill it?

So this is feminist corner then.

'Feminism' is such an incredibly awkward word for us these days, isn't it? Not to be feminist would be bizarre, wouldn't it?

I think we should all call ourselves feminists.

If we're for one another, we're feminists. The rest is semantics.

Feminism is, I hope, a way to a better future for everyone who inhabits this world. Feminism should not be something that needs a seductive marketing campaign. The idea of women moving through the world as freely as men should sell itself.

I think that all women, unless they are absolutely asleep, must be feminists up to a point.

If we value what we've inherited for free - from other women - surely it's right morally and ethically for us to wake up and say, 'I'm a feminist. '

It's self-deceptive to think we're in a post-feminist world when we never tried a feminist world.

Feminism remains something that needs to be explained to people.

The most important movement in the world is the feminist movement. If we can really figure out what's going on between men and women, the other problems will take care of themselves. I'm sure of it.