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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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" I've always been a reader of science fiction, and I have loved a lot of feminist science fiction. "

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" 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.' "

" No one should ever feel obliged to speak or to put themselves out publicly online, but I do think it's a good thing to do. The more of us who are women, making our work and just going 'Here I am, here's my work,' the easier it gets for everybody. It's a good thing to do. "

" 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. "

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

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

" I was incredibly inspired by Oprah Winfrey as a young woman. "

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

" My parents are both intellectuals and readers; my mother would take me to the library every few days from before I was one year old. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" If you hold strong convictions against gay marriage, you shouldn't apply for a job as a registrar. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" I grew up an Orthodox Jew, and now I'm not an Orthodox Jew. So I have sympathy for people who lose their faith. "