The part I wanted them to understand is that these equation… - Roxane Gay

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The part I wanted them to understand is that these equations can implode, constricting your whole life, until one day you're sitting in a locked steel box breathing through an airhole with a straw and wondering, 'Now? Now am I safe?

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Roxane Gay (born October 15, 1974) is an American writer, professor, editor, and commentator.

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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.

Unlikable women refuse to give in to that temptation. They are, instead, themselves. They accept the consequences of their choices, and those consequences become stories worth reading.

Angry women care. Angry women speak and yell and sob their truths.

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