Zoe Quinn Quotes

"Games are awesome. Stop letting jerks hijack them."

"I always want to find meaning in stuff that sucks - I don't want it to be the end of the sentence."

"Mistakes, once owned, apologized for, and buried, need to be an accepted part of life."

"If Gamergate had happened to somebody else, years earlier, I probably would've been on the wrong side."

"It's very alienating to become a target, and it can be really difficult to try and explain to people, to family members."

"I know how nasty backlash can be on the Internet."

"It sucks to not have any privacy."

"I still really love the Internet."

"I would not have pretty much any of the good things in my life if it weren't for the Internet."

"I've lived my entire life online."

"Growing up in a small town in upstate New York, some of the first real friendships I had were in chat rooms."

"I was nerdy and awkward and didn't know how to talk to people - except online."

"I still love gaming and the gaming community."

"I used to go to games events and feel like I was going home."

"I just wanted to make video games."

"The bulk of my work is comedy and I wanted to use the gaming world as a vehicle to deliver comedy."

"You don't really see many games that stand as a pure comedy games."

"I like the idea of using cool cyberpunk stuff to tell really stupid jokes."

"I'm so tired of cyberpunk that says using machines to make your life better makes you less human."

"I don't want to tell a story about how technological advancement is bad."

"It always makes me super nervous how many tech companies don't have data ethicists."

"I really, really, really love writing comics."

"I think as an author every character ends up low-key being some kind of self-insert."

"A friend of the family gave me a Game Boy when I was very little, and it was amazing."

"I'm a weird goofy dork."