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

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" I was there on 9/11. I watched the towers falling from my office window, at which point I decided I would give up my job at a law firm in Manhattan and come back to the U.K. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

" The politics of fear are always the same. They are easily recognisable in retrospect. They are easy to acquiesce in at the time. "

" I've always been a reader of science fiction, and I have loved a lot of feminist science fiction. "

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

" I had a year of panic attacks. I was feeling really pressured, like I could never do it again. With a first novel, you put things on hold because it takes so much mental energy and self-belief to keep on writing. "

" For millennia, human beings have been finding new ways to look at the world through each others' eyes: from projecting ourselves onto the characters in novels or movies to dressing up in costume to devouring the details of some celebrity's life in 'Hello' or 'OK.' "

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

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

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

" There's some really good stuff in the way I was brought up. There's some really rubbish stuff as well. "

" Feminists are asking the practical questions about how you want to live your life. "

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

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

" I've always had a real interest in the way that science fiction can portray a world that could be different to our world, which I find a really exciting thought. "

" You can't write a thing that is hermetically sealed; there has to be a way for the audience to get in and participate. I think that's a massively valuable discipline for any artist. "

" Traditions are always puzzling to those who don't share them. I'm Jewish, so the idea of a 'perfect family Christmas' is foreign to me. "

" People who were always hardbodies love that competitive style of team-sports activity: they come up with timers and fitness contests and personal bests. But for the vast majority of people, competition in exercise is not fun. It's no fun to compete if you know you can never win. "

" Our culture tends to denigrate things that are associated with women. It's OK for women to wear trousers, for example, but not OK for men to wear skirts. "

" Writing is investigation. "