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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" Feminists are asking the practical questions about how you want to live your life. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" I've been a comics fan since my first hit of those gateway drawings: Judy, Asterix, and the TV cartoon 'Spider-Man and his Amazing Friend' - which naturally led me to Spider-Man comics. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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" I listen to terrible music when exercising. I mean, like, early Madonna, Boney M, the Fratellis, Shakira... I can't claim interesting musical taste. "

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

" I honestly can't think of many more truly romantic gestures than a really well-thought-through prenuptial agreement. "

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

" 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. "

" 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.' "

" Competitive sports may be where exercise becomes 'fun' for children who are good at it, but for those who are less talented, it is where exercise becomes not only physically demanding but also emotionally painful and socially humiliating. "

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

" 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. "

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

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