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

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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 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. "

" 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. "

" There's some really good stuff in the way I was brought up. There's some really rubbish stuff as well. "

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

" I am a geek, and proud of 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. "

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

" Expect to be disgusted by your own early work. If writing is your vocation, if you hope that it might be your salvation, push on through the disgust until you find one true sentence, a few words that say more than you expected, something you didn't know until you set it down. "

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

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

" 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. "

" As a gamer, I can't think of anything more annoying for everyone concerned than playing games in a shared living room. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

" I like things that take you by the hand and say, 'You think you know about this - you think you understand it - but there's so much that you don't.' "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Computer games can be works of art and literature - they're still developing. The stories they can tell, and the experiences they provide, are increasingly sophisticated and glorious. "

" 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. "