Roxane Gay — American Writer

Roxane Gay is an American writer, professor, editor, blogger, and commentator. She is a professor of English at Purdue University, contributing op-ed writer at The New York Times, founder of Tiny Hardcore Press, contributing editor for Bluestem Magazine, essays editor for The Rumpus, and co-editor of PANK, a nonprofit literary arts collective... (wikipedia)

Maybe true love isn't out there for me, but I can sublimate my loneliness with the notion that true love is out there for someone.
I recognize that I'm human, and the older I get, the more I realize how fallible I am, how fallible we all are.
We bear witness to the worst of human brutality, retweet what we have witnessed, and then we move on to the next atrocity. There is always more atrocity.
Margaret Sanger didn't just introduce the idea of birth control into our culture at large, she freed women from indenture to their bodies.
I think there are a lot of rules for women. We have a lot of expectations and a lot of rules for women. So we're expected to march in a straight line, and when we don't, all hell breaks loose.