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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. "

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" For years, I looked down on my mother for shopping at Asda, and now I feel very ashamed of it. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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