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" I have no wish to offend, but I do think that holy cows need challenging. "

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" I hope that there are many more women out there writing bits of feminist sci-fi. And men, also - men are allowed to write feminist things. "

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

" Sometimes you feel like the people who invest in hate are winning. Then you just want to talk about love and what it really means to love yourself. "

" It's hard to describe why one room and not another feels right for writing. Of course you have to train yourself to be able to write anywhere, but it's nice to feel that each book has a place that belongs to it, where it's home. "

" I feel powerful when I'm onstage talking to an audience. I like communicating; it feels like my calling in the world. Knowing what you're meant to be doing with your life is pretty bloody powerful. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" I really hope that men read 'The Power' and watch 'The Handmaid's Tale' and read 'The Handmaid's Tale.' "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" I think some people's brains have more of a natural bent towards God than others. "

" 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. "

" 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 get migraines. I've had them all my life; so has my dad. So did his grandmother, although back then they called them 'sick headaches.' "

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