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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| e6a612a | I love food, but it is so difficult to enjoy food. It is so difficult to believe I am allowed to enjoy food. Mostly, food is a constant reminder of my body, my lack of willpower, my biggest flaws. | Roxane Gay | ||
| ad6c827 | That was the first time I realized that weight loss, thinness really, was social currency. | Roxane Gay | ||
| 160b805 | And it's a shame that the measure is what is not so bad [in relationships and partners] instead of what is thriving and good [...] I have had good relationships, but it's hard to trust that because what I consider good doesn't always feel very good at all. | Roxane Gay | ||
| 6ec489f | We should be able to say, "This is my truth," and have that truth stand without a hundred clamoring voices shouting, giving the impression that multiple truths cannot coexist." | Roxane Gay | ||
| 6a81750 | I taste the idea of grocery shopping without strangers taking food they disapprove of out of my cart or offering me unsolicited nutrition advice. | Roxane Gay | ||
| bfb055e | If your man or woman is a scrub, just own it so you and your friends can talk about more interesting things. My go-to explanation is "I am dating an asshole because I'm lazy." | Roxane Gay | ||
| 3e80eda | I don't know how things got so out of control, or I do. This is my refrain. Losing control of my body was a matter of accretion. I began eating to change my body. I was willful in this. Some boys had destroyed me, and I barely survived it. I knew I wouldn't be able to endure another such violation, and so I ate because I thought that if my body became repulsive, I could keep men away. Even at that young age, I understood that to be fat was .. | Roxane Gay | ||
| acc3aa9 | I shouted, "This is not right," knowing my words were useless. There's no room for such distinctions in a country where too many people have to claw for what they need and still have nothing to hold. My" -- | Roxane Gay | ||
| 5eabb3c | Until that moment, Michael had not understood the vastness of the world and how small a place he held in it, | Roxane Gay | ||
| e5e4b25 | What is truly terrifying is the exact knowledge of what will come and being unable to save yourself from it. Grabbing | Roxane Gay | ||
| bb1dba2 | I wanted to tell him I saw the exact same things he did, that this country was a lot for anyone to take, but it was easier to pretend I didn't. Back | Roxane Gay | ||
| 00bb395 | How could I forget? We had a blast but we were surrounded by misery. That is hard to take. I'm just being honest." "Michael," | Roxane Gay | ||
| c85d692 | I don't understand women like you," he said, winding down. "You could have made things easier for yourself. Would it be so hard to play nice with me?" "I don't understand men like you. You could have made things easier for me." "You" | Roxane Gay | ||
| 3c14a51 | The brochure made everything look bucolic and inviting, so I knew, instantly, not to trust such propaganda. My | Roxane Gay | ||
| aac4cc3 | You people are all the same. You live in your grand homes looking down on us in the gutter. You think you control everything and can have anything." "There" | Roxane Gay | ||
| 98e569c | I ran through these streets and thought, "This is a Haiti I have never seen or known." It was a Haiti no one should have to know. I" | Roxane Gay | ||
| fee52d4 | People like you always choose to absolve yourselves. You are complicit even if you do not actively contribute to the problem because you do nothing to solve it." I" | Roxane Gay | ||
| 626f99e | I stared at the woman who betrayed me. I shouted, "How could you? We are both daughters of Dessalines." She stood perfectly still. She did not blink. She did not look away with her dry eyes. By" | Roxane Gay | ||
| fb7544a | The mother kills one child to feed twelve, and one child to feed eleven, and one child to feed ten until she is left with but one child, whom she also slaughters because she too hungers. Finally, she returns to the middle of a cornfield where she slaughtered her other children, where the bones of their thirteen bodies lay. She slits her own throat because she cannot bear the burden of having done what needed to be done. After telling me thi.. | Roxane Gay | ||
| 4247156 | I made my choice. There is nothing you cannot do when you are no one. | Roxane Gay | ||
| 09f3701 | And now, she knew her husband had lied to her. So many years, following him to so many places, and he had repaid her with such staggering deceit. | Roxane Gay | ||
| d410f3b | One thing he had learned in this life--there were always barbarians at both sides of the gate. He | Roxane Gay | ||
| 607e73b | 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 are alone until you find books about girls like you. Salvation is certainly among the reasons I read. Reading and writing have always pulled me out of the darkest experiences in my life. Stories have given me place in which to lose myself. They have allowed me to remember. They have allowed me to forg.. | Roxane Gay | ||
| 91fe692 | In many ways, likability is a very elaborate lie, a performance, a code of conduct dictating the proper way to be. | Roxane Gay | ||
| 6890edd | Even now, you have packs of men following you, willing to make you their strange god. | Roxane Gay | ||
| f0eba74 | They wanted to break me. It was not personal. I was not broken. This | Roxane Gay | ||
| 28d17cb | The ladies in her classes loved to speak to Caridad in broken Spanish, to show her they were comfortable with her ethnicity despite the paleness of their skin and the wealth of their husbands. | wealth | Roxane Gay | |
| 66b01cc | You know, Fabienne, being American is feeling pretty good right now. This would have never happened to us in Miami, or anywhere in the States and don't you forget that." Fabienne" | Roxane Gay | ||
| a474658 | It is only an accident of birth that makes it possible for you to enjoy your lives the way you do." We were young. We had no idea what he meant. In" | Roxane Gay | ||
| 52e4435 | I wanted to tear the skin from her face so I could see the blood of a woman who would stand by and do nothing while another woman endured what was being done to me. The | Roxane Gay | ||
| 2fa8593 | You don't necessarily have to do anything once you acknowledge your privilege. You don't have to apologize for it. You need to understand the extent of your privilege, the consequences of your privilege, and remain aware that people who are different from you move through and experience the world in ways you might never know anything about. They might endure situations you can never know anything about. You could, however, use that privileg.. | Roxane Gay | ||
| b3c680f | Look how these people live. Never forget what they choose to deny you." I" | Roxane Gay | ||
| ca3f9a5 | I couldn't stop laughing. I don't know why. Too much was beyond my control. | Roxane Gay | ||
| aff8b92 | It is often women who pay the price for what men want." The" | Roxane Gay | ||
| f95e26f | There would always be ransoms for any dignity or peace. | Roxane Gay | ||
| eb57564 | The older I get the less the world makes sense." "I" | Roxane Gay | ||
| 8061746 | There was nothing you could do but what you did. Do you hear me?" "This" | Roxane Gay | ||
| 378f672 | There's nothing easy about what you're dealing with but you need to face that and step up." Michael" | Roxane Gay | ||
| 028f401 | This is not how you were raised," Glen said, "and I think that's all I really need to say about the way you're acting." Michael" | Roxane Gay | ||
| bf07e01 | When I'm around the right people, I feel strong and powerful and sexy. | Roxane Gay | ||
| 48cebf1 | Why is this show being held to the higher standard when there are so many television shows that have long ignored race and class or have flagrantly transgressed in these areas? There are so many terrible shows on television representing women in sexist, stupid, silly ways. Movies are even worse. Movies take one or two anemic ideas about women, caricature them, and shove those caricatures down our throats. The moment we see a pop artifact of.. | Roxane Gay | ||
| fc1cac2 | I belong with these things, they are mine, so I do not stay long. | Roxane Gay | ||
| 89e93f5 | I love the pain, which isn't excruciating but is incredibly, infuriatingly persistent, accompanied by the endless whine of the tattoo gun, marking me forever. | Roxane Gay | ||
| 3a6b5b1 | His mother was yet another indignity he was forced to endure. | Roxane Gay |