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" Games don't cause racism. But the real-time chat makes nasty comments hard to moderate and easy to spread. "

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

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" Writers of feminist dystopian fiction are alert to the realities that grind down women's lives, that make the unthinkable suddenly thinkable. "

" If gaming were seen as an art, the important question would be not whether games are good for us but whether they are good, full stop. "

" It's absolutely delightful to get dressed up for a lovely evening, but when it goes from being a fun thing to being a chore, and a chore that men don't have to do, then we need to think about it differently. "

" When a marriage founders, this may well be cause for tremendous sadness, but it's not a failure of spirit or character. People change, their goals and dreams alter, their ideas of themselves grow, or they just meet someone they like better. "

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" 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. "

" I've been a comics fan since my first hit of those gateway drawings: Judy, Asterix, and the TV cartoon 'Spider-Man and his Amazing Friend' - which naturally led me to Spider-Man comics. "

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

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

" 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. "

" The demands of having to be 'masculine' are as damaging to men as the demands of having to be 'feminine' are to women. I wish we could all agree just to wash it all away. Begin again. "

" I honestly can't think of many more truly romantic gestures than a really well-thought-through prenuptial agreement. "

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" Gaming is our cultural bogeyman - we blame it for everything from child obesity to violence to short attention spans. But any explanation that fits every situation ultimately explains nothing. "

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" I suppose the idea about all Orthodox religion is that it's a kind of submission, obedience. "

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" If you hold strong convictions against gay marriage, you shouldn't apply for a job as a registrar. "

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