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

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

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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.

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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.

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

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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.'

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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.

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

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One of the hardest challenges posed by the modern world is how to deal with abundance. It's even harder to confront because admitting that it's a problem seems spoiled.

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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We urgently need to address the assumption bound up in our employment laws and custody arrangements that women are the 'natural child carers' and men don't really want much to do with their children.

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

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

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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.

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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.

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I wish that positions of power dependent on education were as open to abused children, poor children, working-class children as they are to the children of the rich and successful. I really wish that were true.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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I find it particularly irritating, if I go to a games conference to speak about my work, that often it's presumed that I'm the marketing girl - that's annoying.

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

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The politics of fear are always the same. They are easily recognisable in retrospect. They are easy to acquiesce in at the time.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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I hated sports at school. Almost everyone did.

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I don't think I have any particular problem with God.

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While 'Iron Man' is tremendous fun, it's another reminder of the pressure on all of us to make ourselves increasingly perfect and a little less human. And that is something it is important to resist.

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

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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.

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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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