Roxane Gay Quotes

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

I do not fight against men, but against the system that is sexist.

I demanded more rights for women because I know what women had to put up with.

There's many women now who think, 'Surely we don't need feminism anymore, we're all liberated and society's accepting us as we are'. Which is just hogwash. It's not true at all.

Not regarded as the equals of men.

Topple the Patriarchy

Sexism is real.

I think there are fundamental power imbalances between the sexes that play themselves out in society. And I think science is just not immune to that - which actually isn't a very controversial stance if you think about it.

The fact is, there is not now, nor has there ever been in the whole of history, a single country in the world where women have equality with men.

The American woman's inequality with men is proved by her defiant attitude.

The battle with Men Who Explain Things has trampled down many women - of my generation, of the up-and-coming generation we need so badly, here and in Pakistan and Bolivia and Java, not to speak of the countless women who came before me and were not allowed into the laboratory, or the library, or the conversation, or the revolution, or even the category called human.

Obviously the most oppressed of any oppressed group will be its women

Today the two hundred million men in our country are entering into a civilized new world...but we, the two hundred million women, are still kept down in the dungeon.

It cannot be doubted that in most countries today women, in comparison to men, still remain underprivileged.

Gender inequality is not one problem, it's a collection of problems.

Women piece together their lives from the scraps left over for them.

Why are women still this underclass? If we all banded together...

I hate the victimization of women, always.

Feminists have confused opportunity with outcome.

When anything goes, it's women who lose.

I think a lot of people love to convolute what everyone else does in order to disempower women.

I can hear the roar of women's silence.

I know how hard it is to be a woman, especially a black woman.

I know a lot of the work that paved the way for women happened before I was around... I was never that feminist girl demanding equality, but maybe that's because I've never really faced inequality.

I don't know why it's still a taboo to be a feminist.