Welcome back to Thursday Quotables! This weekly feature is the place to highlight a great quote, line, or passage discovered during your reading each week. Whether it’s something funny, startling, gut-wrenching, or just really beautifully written, Thursday Quotables is where my favorite lines of the week will be, and you’re invited to join in!
Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay
(published August 5, 2014)
I haven’t gotten very far, but so far I’m really enjoying these entertaining and thought-provoking essays. Here’s a little sample:
I embrace the label of bad feminist because I am human. I am messy. I’m not trying to be an example. I am not trying to be perfect. I am not trying to say I have all the answers. I am not trying to say I’m right. I am just trying — trying to support what I believe in, trying to do some good in this world, trying to make some noise with my writing while also being myself: a woman who loves pink and likes to get freaky and sometimes dances her ass off to music she knows, she knows, is terrible for women and who sometimes plays dumb with repairmen because it’s just easier to let them feel macho than it is to stand on the moral high ground.
And another:
Even from a young age I understood that when a girl is unlikable, a girl is a problem. I also understood that I wasn’t being intentionally mean. I was being honest (admittedly, without tact), and I was being human. It is either a blessing or a curse that those are rarely likable qualities in a woman.
What lines made you laugh, cry, or gasp this week? Do tell!
If you’d like to participate in Thursday Quotables, it’s really simple:
- Write a Thursday Quotables post on your blog. Try to pick something from whatever you’re reading now. And please be sure to include a link back to Bookshelf Fantasies in your post (http://www.bookshelffantasies.com), if you’d be so kind!
- Leave your link in the comments — or, if you have a quote to share but not a blog post, you can leave your quote in the comments too!
- Visit other linked blogs to view their Thursday Quotables, and have fun!
Bookshelf Fantasies 
This book sounds great. I might have to join in with this next week 🙂
I hope you do! It’ll be great to see what you pick!
That was such a good book. Those are a few of my favorite quotes as well?
I keep wanting to read pieces out loud to people! 🙂 I’m really finding it interesting so far, but I’m trying to take it slowly and just read one essay at a time so I can think about it a bit and not just rush through. It’s not my usual way of reading, but I’m working on it!
Haha! I do that too, then hate myself just a little. Here’s mine: https://everydayhas.wordpress.com/2015/01/15/thursday-quotables-the-sense-of-style/
That’s why this book appealed to me in the first place — the idea that feminism doesn’t require perfection. 🙂 Thanks for sharing your link!
It sure sounds thought-provoking 😉
Mine is another dieselpunk snippet from the antho Broken Time Blues
http://theoldshelter.com/thursday-quotables-nor-the-moonlight/
It’s definitely making me think — and the writing is so great, it’s also making me laugh quite a bit. Thanks for sharing your link!
I added this to my long TBR list after reading these quotes!
I hope you enjoy it! The essays are very varied, and it’s fun to pick up the book and just read one or two at a time.