"I would rather be a bad feminist than no feminist at all."

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Source : "Roxane Gay: the bad feminist manifesto" by Roxane Gay, www.theguardian.com. August 2, 2014.

Roxane Gay

#Feminist Quotes

“Well you always want to play against the best. That's what you're going to get in the Super Bowl. To go against guys like Peyton Manning and Tom Brady who I have tons of respect for; I watch their games, I study their games, I try to learn from them. It gets you excited, but hopefully not too excited. Just focus on the game. Then when my career is done then I can look back at it.”
“Why, if there is alphabet soup, do we not have punctuation cereal?”

Source : Mary Norris (2015). “Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen”, p.81, W. W. Norton & Company
“How many things both just and unjust are sanctioned by custom?”

Source : Terence (1859). “Comedies of Terence”, p.182
“I am a role model, definitely and I definitely support women.”
“As I understand it, a universe is a ... well, a totality. A universe is everything that is, as far as the inside of the thing.”
“She rises up out of a sea of faces and embraces me, embraces me passionately--- a thousand eyes, noses, fingers, legs, bottles, windows, purses, saucers all glaring at us an we in each other's arm oblivious. I sit down beside her and she talks--- a flood of talk. Wild consumptive notes of hysteria, perversion, leprosy. I hear not a word because she is beautiful and I love her and now I am happy and willing to die.”
“My view is there will be problems and bad people as long as the earth exists, and since we're moving into a completely interdependent global environment, we're better off building a world we'd like to live in when the United States are not the only military superpower. That is, we need to build a world of shared responsibility, shared benefits, and shared commitment to our common humanity.”
“Many live in the ivory tower called reality; they never venture on the open sea of thought.”

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