I was a lesbian for a semester at Wesleyan - it was a graduation requirement.

Whatever my intentions, whatever the truth of my claim, I had no business giving a lecture to a total stranger.

It's incredibly important to me that my children don't put anything in their bodies that they haven't tested first - that's how you end up dying.

That connection between hormones and mood is so important to get a handle on, and it's also really important when you're considering taking medication.

I love my husband more than I love my children.

The Q I loathe and despise, the Q every single writer I know loathes and despises, is this one: 'Where,' the reader asks, 'do you get your ideas?' It's a simple question, and my usual response is a kind of helpless, 'I don't know.'

With prodigious bravery and eviscerating humor, Roxane Gay takes on culture and politics in Bad Feminist-and gets it right, time and time again. We should all be lucky enough to be such a bad feminist.