Tamara Thomas

“No matter what issues I have with feminism, I am a feminist. I cannot and will not deny the importance and absolute necessity of feminism. Like most people, I’m full of contradictions, but I also don’t want to be treated like shit for being a woman.”
― Roxane Gay, Bad Feminist: Essays

“am being open about who I am and who I was and where I have faltered and who I would like to become.”
― Roxane Gay, Bad Feminist: Essays

“We are, after all, supposed to be one nation indivisible. Only if we act as such, might we begin to truly effect change.”
― Roxane Gay, Bad Feminist: Essays

“Rather than solve the real problems the United States is facing, some politicians, mostly conservative, have decided to try to solve the “female problem” by creating a smoke screen, reintroducing abortion and, more inexplicably, birth control into a national debate. Women have been forced underground for contraception and pregnancy termination before, and we will go underground again if we have to. We will risk our lives if these politicians, who so flagrantly demean women, force us to do so. Thank goodness women do not have short memories.”
― Roxane Gay, Bad Feminist: Essays