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" I find it particularly irritating, if I go to a games conference to speak about my work, that often it's presumed that I'm the marketing girl - that's annoying. "

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

" I was incredibly inspired by Oprah Winfrey as a young woman. "

" 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. "

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

" The thing about having true fans, it seems, is that they remain loyal to their idea of what the work meant to them. And that might make them more exacting than the toughest studio executive or publishing boss. "

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

" If I'm working every day, it's like pumping a pump. When you start, rusty water comes out, and then it runs clear. I do it even if I get completely stuck. "

" You learn the most from sitting down and doing the work, regularly, patiently, sometimes in hope, sometimes despairingly. "

" 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. "

" The species will continue, whatever apocalypse we manage to unleash. It just won't be much fun to live through. "

" I listen to terrible music when exercising. I mean, like, early Madonna, Boney M, the Fratellis, Shakira... I can't claim interesting musical taste. "

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

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

" While 'Iron Man' is tremendous fun, it's another reminder of the pressure on all of us to make ourselves increasingly perfect and a little less human. And that is something it is important to resist. "

" Claude Cahun is a fascinating artist - one of the few women to be part of the surrealist movement, she and her partner Suzanne Malherbe took on men's names and made artworks that investigated female identity long before 'The Second Sex' or Cindy Sherman. "

" 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. "

" My childhood was full of shocks and alarums, and I had to work a long time to make a life that pleases me. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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" The hilarity or brilliance of a forwarded link is inversely proportional to the number of people it's sent to. "

" The women's movement gave me a set of tools to think about things like my body and how people react to me and the way that my dating life was going. It's a very practical movement - yes, it's about issues like how we can get more women MPs elected, but it's also about how feminism affects things like your relationship. "

" I've got the brain for systems and a head for figures. "

" Twitter's strength - and its weakness - is that it makes it extremely easy to share every passing thought with everyone on your friends list. "

" 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. "