Anshuli Dey

“The notion that I should be fine with the status quo even if I am not wholly affected by the status quo is repulsive.”
― Roxane Gay, Bad Feminist

“I openly embrace the label of bad feminist. I do so because I am flawed and human. I am not terribly well versed in feminist history. I am not as well read in key feminist texts as I would like to be. I have certain . . . interests and personality traits and opinions that may not fall in line with mainstream feminism, but I am still a feminist. I cannot tell you how freeing it has been to accept this about myself.”
― Roxane Gay, Bad Feminist: Essays

“One of my biggest weaknesses, one that has always shamed me, is that I have always been lonely. I’ve struggled to make friends because I can be socially awkward, because I’m weird, because I live in my head.”
― Roxane Gay, Bad Feminist: Essays

“We live in a strange and terrible time for women. There are days when I think it has always been a strange and terrible time to be a woman.”
― Roxane Gay, Bad Feminist: Essays