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

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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. "

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

" 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 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. "

" It's very easy for a writer to spend much too much time in her head. "

" 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.' "

" The gaming world isn't filled only with violence and depravity. In fact, it's mostly enchanting. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" You learn the most from sitting down and doing the work, regularly, patiently, sometimes in hope, sometimes despairingly. "

" 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. "

" We urgently need to address the assumption bound up in our employment laws and custody arrangements that women are the 'natural child carers' and men don't really want much to do with their children. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" Writing is investigation. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" We all know that the desire for perfection can get in the way of authenticity and enjoyment; it's the same with games. There's a completist part to many of us that can't rest until we reach the perfect 100% finish point. "

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

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

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

" I am a geek, and proud of it. "

" 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. "

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