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" If something is a problem, it's all right to admit it. "
Naomi Alderman
Admit
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Right
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" 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. "
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" I've only got anywhere with Minecraft by getting my friends to explain it. "
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" We human beings get nervous if we don't know what's going on. It's the rule for creating scary stories: the unknown is always more frightening than the known. "
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" 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. "
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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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" Traditions are always puzzling to those who don't share them. I'm Jewish, so the idea of a 'perfect family Christmas' is foreign to me. "
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" I really hope that men read 'The Power' and watch 'The Handmaid's Tale' and read 'The Handmaid's Tale.' "
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" No one in tech has ever been as sexist toward me as teachers and rabbis before I was 12 years old. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" I hated sports at school. Almost everyone did. "
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" For millennia, human beings have been finding new ways to look at the world through each others' eyes: from projecting ourselves onto the characters in novels or movies to dressing up in costume to devouring the details of some celebrity's life in 'Hello' or 'OK.' "
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" The politics of fear are always the same. They are easily recognisable in retrospect. They are easy to acquiesce in at the time. "
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" 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. "
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" In general, I'd rather ask questions and look stupid than keep quiet and not understand what someone's talking about. "
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" I was incredibly inspired by Oprah Winfrey as a young woman. "
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Young Woman
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" 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. "
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" The hilarity or brilliance of a forwarded link is inversely proportional to the number of people it's sent to. "
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Sent
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" People who were always hardbodies love that competitive style of team-sports activity: they come up with timers and fitness contests and personal bests. But for the vast majority of people, competition in exercise is not fun. It's no fun to compete if you know you can never win. "
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" If you hold strong convictions against gay marriage, you shouldn't apply for a job as a registrar. "
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" I am someone who really would like to see more women in government, but Palin makes me cringe every time I hear about her. "
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" It's absolutely delightful to get dressed up for a lovely evening, but when it goes from being a fun thing to being a chore, and a chore that men don't have to do, then we need to think about it differently. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" The truth is, none of us is OK, not really. The best, most dear, most thoughtful and engaged and open and feminist men in my life have occasionally come out with some statement that's made me gasp. Then again, so have almost all the women. "
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" I don't think I have any particular problem with God. "
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" 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. "
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