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

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

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

" When I was 19, I wrote a novel, which was not very good, but I finished it. "

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

" Personal trainers, however nice, give me PE teacher flashbacks. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I'd been to an Orthodox Jewish primary school where, every morning, the boys said, 'Thank you God for not making me a woman.' If you put that together with 'The Handmaid's Tale' in your head, something will eventually go fizz! Boom! "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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" Attending a book group is always a salutary experience for a writer. There's no guarantee that the people there will have enjoyed your book, and, as anyone who has taken part in a book group will know, half the fun is in ripping a book you haven't liked to shreds. "

" I really hope that men read 'The Power' and watch 'The Handmaid's Tale' and read 'The Handmaid's Tale.' "

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

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" Utopias and dystopias can exist side by side, even in the same moment. Which one you're in depends entirely on your point of view. "