Better is not good enough, and it’s a shame that anyone would be willing to settle for so little.
– Roxane Gay
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- Without guilt or remorse, shame was an empty emotion. Indeed, shame would not be shame. – Sylvain Reynard
- I knew I was in love with The Hunger Games when I did not want to get off the treadmill – Roxane Gay
- Love your friends’ kids even if you don’t want or like children. Just do it. – Roxane Gay
- I would rather be a bad feminist than no feminist at all. – Roxane Gay
- … just one more reminder that the rules are always different for girls, no matter who they are and no matter what they do. – Roxane Gay
- This tension-the idea that there is a right way to be a woman, a right way to be the most essential woman- is ongoing and pervasive. – Roxane Gay
- Like many writers, I lived inside of books as a child. – Roxane Gay
- Some experiences are universal. A girl is a girl whether she lives in West Omaha or Sweet Valley. Books are often far more than books. – Roxane Gay
- I no longer want to believe these problems are too complex for us to make sense of them. – Roxane Gay
- When you can’t find someone to follow, find a way to lead by example. – Roxane Gay
- On the scale of relevance, public approval or disapproval of a woman’s choices should not merit measure. – Roxane Gay
- If people cannot be flawed in fiction there’s no place left for us to be human. – Roxane Gay
- Nostalgia is powerful. It is natural, human to long for the past, particularly when we can remember our histories as better than they were. – Roxane Gay
- Nostalgia is powerful. It is natural, human to long for the past, particularly when we can remember our histories as better than they were. – Roxane Gay
- To read narrowly and shallowly is to read from a place of ignorance. – Roxane Gay
- Racism doesn’t care about respectability, wealth, education, or status – Roxane Gay
- I am quite content to be in my thirties, and nothing affirms that more than being around people in their late teens and early twenties. – Roxane Gay
- I don’t put that pressure on myself (to write every day), but I do tend to write every day. It’s not pressure-”it’s pressure release. – Roxane Gay
- Don’t settle. If you settle, you already know it’s below your standards. You are entitled to the best this life has to offer. – Karen A Baquiran
- There is no shame in ignorance before a higher power but there is shame in arrogance. – IanAnthony Finnimore
- Shame internalized can lead to agony. Whereas shame let out can lead to freedom, or at least a funny story, which is a sort of freedom too. – Jon Ronson
- No revolution is made out of shame. I reply: Shame is already revolution of a kind – Karl Marx
- We cannot grow when we are in shame, and we can’t use shame to change ourselves or others. – Bren Brown
- Conviction says, ‘My behavior was wrong.’ Satan, on the other hand, floods our hearts with shame. Shame says, ‘There is something wrong with me. – Dale Forehand
- There is no shame in losing to the sword of the Prince. There is only shame in choosing not to follow Him. – Chuck Black
- Humility and shame have been confused. Humility is knowing that you know nothing for sure and shame is someone having to tell you. – Erica Goros
- Shame lies. All the time. About everything. Don’t believe your shame. – Scott Stabile
- Oh, the shame that I suffer now . . . the shame of a vanquished King.- And those were the last words of Henry Plantagenet. – Jean Plaidy
- Shame was an emotion he had abandoned years earlier. Addicts know no shame. You disgrace yourself so many times you become immune to it. – John Grisham
- Breakups have a way of shaking us awake and helping us see what we really want vs. what we are willing to settle for. – Mandy Hale
- If you are not willing to risk the usual you will have to settle for the ordinary. – Jim Rohn
- Well sue me for staring. I’d be willing to scrub away my shame on his washboard abs. – Tia Giacalone
- I was its skin, its movement, its shape, its god, its creator, its destroyer. And you thought Dexter was bad. The Bridgeman arrives soon. – Catherine Astolfo
- Something is significantly wrong with the creature that sacrifices its children’s lives in order to settle its differences. – Suzanne Collins
- Something is significantly wrong with the creature that sacrifices its children’s lives in order to settle its differences. – Suzanne Collins
- Because something is significantly wrong with a creature that sacrifices its children’s lives to settle its differences. – Suzanne Collins
- Because anyone who thinks there is something wrong with being gay is like those people you read about in History who believed it segregation. – Michael Barakiva
- Progress has a steep price. Success has an even steeper price. Your team won’t be willing to pay it if you aren’t willing to pay it. – T Jay Taylor
- One always has to be willing to lose to be able to win… in battle and in life. I wonder. Are you willing to lose, Rayla? – Christie Rich
- Be willing to sacrifice everything. Detach from everything to be willing to become more than you THINK that you are. To live differently. – Matthew Donnelly