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" I hate to be one of those people who forwards links to 'hilarious pictures' or 'brilliant games' to half their contacts database. "

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

" More choice doesn't make us happy, and we understand that no one has infinite choices about how to live life. "

" 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. "

" In general, I'd rather ask questions and look stupid than keep quiet and not understand what someone's talking about. "

" 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. "

" I've been paid less than men I worked with who contributed less to the project. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

" 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've only got anywhere with Minecraft by getting my friends to explain it. "

" 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. "

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

" After the novel was published, I came to feel that I couldn't call myself Orthodox anymore. It's so patriarchal, anti-women, anti-gay. There was something about writing 'Disobedience'... it felt like I had put it all in the book. I had done my best by it, recorded what it meant for me. I felt I was done. "

" Utopias and dystopias can exist side by side, even in the same moment. Which one you're in depends entirely on your point of view. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" Writing is investigation. "

" 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. "

" What I want is a world where neither gender nor sex are destiny. Where no child is ever told there's anything they can't do, or must do, 'because you're a boy' or 'because you're a girl.' It's not a world where anything is 'taken' from anyone - it's one where everyone's possibilities are enlarged. "

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

" 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. "