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Writing is investigation.
I hated sports at school. Almost everyone did.
I don't think I have any particular problem with God.
If something is a problem, it's all right to admit it.
I've got the brain for systems and a head for figures.
I was incredibly inspired by Oprah Winfrey as a young woman.
Personal trainers, however nice, give me PE teacher flashbacks.
When we learn to TOLERATE boredom, we find out who we really are.
It's very easy for a writer to spend much too much time in her head.
I have no wish to offend, but I do think that holy cows need challenging.
I've only got anywhere with Minecraft by getting my friends to explain it.
I think some people's brains have more of a natural bent towards God than others.
Feminists are asking the practical questions about how you want to live your life.
What is freedom, in the end, but that no one cares any longer to try to restrain us?
I got my first library card, for Hendon Library in north London, when I was two years old.
I suppose the idea about all Orthodox religion is that it's a kind of submission, obedience.
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.
The gaming world isn't filled only with violence and depravity. In fact, it's mostly enchanting.
What makes 'The Handmaid's Tale' so terrifying is that everything that happens in it is plausible.
No one in tech has ever been as sexist toward me as teachers and rabbis before I was 12 years old.
If you hold strong convictions against gay marriage, you shouldn't apply for a job as a registrar.
I love books. I want to read them, and I want to own them so they're always available to be reread.
There's some really good stuff in the way I was brought up. There's some really rubbish stuff as well.
I really hope that men read 'The Power' and watch 'The Handmaid's Tale' and read 'The Handmaid's Tale.'
The value of the arts cannot be measured by its ability to preserve life but rather to enhance existence.
Games don't cause racism. But the real-time chat makes nasty comments hard to moderate and easy to spread.
My childhood was full of shocks and alarums, and I had to work a long time to make a life that pleases me.
I wish it were true that every child had access to an education that helped them reach their full potential.
More choice doesn't make us happy, and we understand that no one has infinite choices about how to live life.
The hilarity or brilliance of a forwarded link is inversely proportional to the number of people it's sent to.
I have a suspicion of lockstep and everyone looking in the same direction: that's a key character trait in me.
The species will continue, whatever apocalypse we manage to unleash. It just won't be much fun to live through.
I grew up an Orthodox Jew, and now I'm not an Orthodox Jew. So I have sympathy for people who lose their faith.
The worst things that ever happened to me were before I was 20. It has been slow, hard-won improvement since then.
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 honestly can't think of many more truly romantic gestures than a really well-thought-through prenuptial agreement.
As a gamer, I can't think of anything more annoying for everyone concerned than playing games in a shared living room.
As someone who went to school in the '70s and '80s, I can't say that I noticed much of a 'medals for all' culture myself.
You learn the most from sitting down and doing the work, regularly, patiently, sometimes in hope, sometimes despairingly.
I am someone who really would like to see more women in government, but Palin makes me cringe every time I hear about her.
The politics of fear are always the same. They are easily recognisable in retrospect. They are easy to acquiesce in at the time.
I hate to be one of those people who forwards links to 'hilarious pictures' or 'brilliant games' to half their contacts database.
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.
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.
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.
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 get migraines. I've had them all my life; so has my dad. So did his grandmother, although back then they called them 'sick headaches.'
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.
Twitter's strength - and its weakness - is that it makes it extremely easy to share every passing thought with everyone on your friends list.