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

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

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

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

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

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" No human quality belongs to only one class of person. We all get to be both aggressive and loving. We all get to delight in our careers and revel in our children. We're all kind and brave, soft and hard, sciency and artsy, interested in being looked at and in admiring others' physical form. Everything. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" The value of the arts cannot be measured by its ability to preserve life but rather to enhance existence. "

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

" I love books. I want to read them, and I want to own them so they're always available to be reread. "

" The arts are valuable because they increase our sense of what it means to be human, not because of any specific skill or ability they confer. "

" One of the hardest challenges posed by the modern world is how to deal with abundance. It's even harder to confront because admitting that it's a problem seems spoiled. "

" I was reading the Bible in Hebrew from a very young age, so that'll shape ideas about how words can move the world. "

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" 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. "

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

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