"I have not seen a fraction of the cruelty that the world is capable of, but I have trembled often enough in the aftershocks of my own resistance to a world built to break me to know know that female brutality is not just and acceptable response, it is the most sensible one, too."
"[I was] silently complicit in narratives that dismiss female rage as symptomatic of a juvenile character rather than the logical response to a hostile world."
It's been such a long time since I started reading this but I think I just don't want to finish it...it's very likely I'll reread some of the essays if I ever do finish them anyway, though - not to mention how prolific a writer Roxane Gay is, so it's not like I won't have anything of hers to read after Bad Feminist. I tell myself I'm savouring it, but the truth is I just have too many books on the go at once...
I swear, one day I will finish these stories.
Fun and interesting read in preparation for the Winter Solstice and Christmas 🌬❄️🌲🌞🎄☕️⭐️
