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" Let's teach boys at school the personally and economically valuable skills of self-expression and emotional intelligence, of mediation and problem-solving. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The thing about having true fans, it seems, is that they remain loyal to their idea of what the work meant to them. And that might make them more exacting than the toughest studio executive or publishing boss. "

" I've got the brain for systems and a head for figures. "

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

" No one in tech has ever been as sexist toward me as teachers and rabbis before I was 12 years old. "

" You can't write a thing that is hermetically sealed; there has to be a way for the audience to get in and participate. I think that's a massively valuable discipline for any artist. "

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

" 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. "

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

" After the novel was published, I came to feel that I couldn't call myself Orthodox anymore. It's so patriarchal, anti-women, anti-gay. There was something about writing 'Disobedience'... it felt like I had put it all in the book. I had done my best by it, recorded what it meant for me. I felt I was done. "

" More choice doesn't make us happy, and we understand that no one has infinite choices about how to live life. "

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

" The women's movement gave me a set of tools to think about things like my body and how people react to me and the way that my dating life was going. It's a very practical movement - yes, it's about issues like how we can get more women MPs elected, but it's also about how feminism affects things like your relationship. "

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

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

" If I'm working every day, it's like pumping a pump. When you start, rusty water comes out, and then it runs clear. I do it even if I get completely stuck. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" When a marriage founders, this may well be cause for tremendous sadness, but it's not a failure of spirit or character. People change, their goals and dreams alter, their ideas of themselves grow, or they just meet someone they like better. "

" I was reading the Bible in Hebrew from a very young age, so that'll shape ideas about how words can move the world. "