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" As someone who went to school in the '70s and '80s, I can't say that I noticed much of a 'medals for all' culture myself. "

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" No one should ever feel obliged to speak or to put themselves out publicly online, but I do think it's a good thing to do. The more of us who are women, making our work and just going 'Here I am, here's my work,' the easier it gets for everybody. It's a good thing to do. "

" What makes 'The Handmaid's Tale' so terrifying is that everything that happens in it is plausible. "

" I got my first library card, for Hendon Library in north London, when I was two years old. "

" When I was 19, I wrote a novel, which was not very good, but I finished it. "

" Attending a book group is always a salutary experience for a writer. There's no guarantee that the people there will have enjoyed your book, and, as anyone who has taken part in a book group will know, half the fun is in ripping a book you haven't liked to shreds. "

" My parents are both intellectuals and readers; my mother would take me to the library every few days from before I was one year old. "

" I have a suspicion of lockstep and everyone looking in the same direction: that's a key character trait in me. "

" I wish it were true that every child had access to an education that helped them reach their full potential. "

" I find the sneeriness about 'selfie-culture' quite boring - I'm excited by young people taking control of their own images and finding out for themselves how much Photoshop has done for models. "

" Expect to be disgusted by your own early work. If writing is your vocation, if you hope that it might be your salvation, push on through the disgust until you find one true sentence, a few words that say more than you expected, something you didn't know until you set it down. "

" Too many keep-fit ideas are designed for those who are already fit, and they're just no fun. "

" The truth is, none of us is OK, not really. The best, most dear, most thoughtful and engaged and open and feminist men in my life have occasionally come out with some statement that's made me gasp. Then again, so have almost all the women. "

" We human beings get nervous if we don't know what's going on. It's the rule for creating scary stories: the unknown is always more frightening than the known. "

" It's very easy for a writer to spend much too much time in her head. "

" Let's teach boys at school the personally and economically valuable skills of self-expression and emotional intelligence, of mediation and problem-solving. "

" I am someone who really would like to see more women in government, but Palin makes me cringe every time I hear about her. "

" If something is a problem, it's all right to admit it. "

" It is a very different feeling to be in a fat body that is moving a lot to one that hardly moves at all. It feels like love. As simple and as joyful as that. "

" I hope that there are many more women out there writing bits of feminist sci-fi. And men, also - men are allowed to write feminist things. "

" No one in tech has ever been as sexist toward me as teachers and rabbis before I was 12 years old. "

" Sometimes you feel like the people who invest in hate are winning. Then you just want to talk about love and what it really means to love yourself. "

" I wish that positions of power dependent on education were as open to abused children, poor children, working-class children as they are to the children of the rich and successful. I really wish that were true. "

" I hated sports at school. Almost everyone did. "

" I really hope that men read 'The Power' and watch 'The Handmaid's Tale' and read 'The Handmaid's Tale.' "

" I don't think I have any particular problem with God. "

" The worst things that ever happened to me were before I was 20. It has been slow, hard-won improvement since then. "

" Personal trainers, however nice, give me PE teacher flashbacks. "

" I grew up an Orthodox Jew, and now I'm not an Orthodox Jew. So I have sympathy for people who lose their faith. "

" I used to think there was something cheap in trying to make beautiful sentences. Now I think language has its own ways and ends, and it does one's thinking good to try to serve them. Beauty isn't truth. But a certain kind of clear beauty will help in the pursuit of truth. "