Top 80 Quotes & Sayings by Zoe Quinn - Page 2

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

Any kind of gender expression is performance for me, regardless of where it is on the spectrum.

There are few people I can talk to about the worst parts of what happened during Gamergate.

When you really boil it down, what comedy does is you expect one thing, and you get a totally different thing that's humorous, and we all laugh. That's generally how, just mechanically - super-distilled - comedy works.

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

I spent my 21st birthday chatting with my online friends because my husband had little interest in celebrating with me, and there was no other group of people I'd rather spend time with, even if they weren't there with me in person.

I know how nasty backlash can be on the Internet.

It's so weird, like, it's not like Gamergate is the only bad thing to happen to me. I've been homeless before, I've had to come through other stuff. A profoundly abusive childhood, but at least that stuff feels like I got to move on from it, that stuff is in the past.

I've lived my entire life online.

My family are so proud of me for standing up for marginalised people in nerd communities.

My entire career is online - I create games on the web.

The No. 1 thing I've seen actually help with online abuse is when the person has a good community or a strong support network that's savvy and that can help them.

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

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

The topic is too big, there's too many people who live with it, and too many moving pieces for anyone to do a definitive statement on what depression is like for everyone. 'Depression Quest's' goal was to be a basic introduction to the concept and to get the conversation started.

A big barrier to people getting help with online harassment is the general attitude either that it's not a real issue - that it's 'only' online - or that it's limited to someone saying they don't like you, and all of that stems from a basic misunderstanding of what we mean when we say 'online harassment.'

One joke coming from one person can land completely flat, while somebody else delivering it in a unique way can really elevate it.

Anyone can have depression. The illness doesn't care how much you do or don't have.

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

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