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.
No one in tech has ever been as sexist toward me as teachers and rabbis before I was 12 years old.
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.
For years, I looked down on my mother for shopping at Asda, and now I feel very ashamed of it.
I find the sneeriness about ‘selfie-culture’ quite boring – I’m excited by young people taking control of their own images and finding out for themselves how much Photoshop has done for models.
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.
I am someone who really would like to see more women in government, but Palin makes me cringe every time I hear about her.
If something is a problem, it’s all right to admit it.
I love books. I want to read them, and I want to own them so they’re always available to be reread.
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.
Sometimes you feel like the people who invest in hate are winning. Then you just want to talk about love and what it really means to love yourself.
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.
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.’
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