I was adopted into an extremely right-wing religious family.

I grew up listening to Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity, and it took me getting out into the real world and understanding what I faced as a woman in my career to really open up my eyes.

With my company, Giant Spacekat, I was very angry about the lack of games that portrayed women positively in the video game industry, so I launched my own studio, gave a lot of very talented women jobs, and we made some of the most awesome, empowering games in the business.

In politics, I am facing a lot of structural sexism.

I still quite enjoy watching Fox News because I think it makes me think through my arguments and make sure I'm on the right side.

I've rarely talked about Obama's share of the blame for the rise of the alt-right and Gamergate.

The Democratic Party tends to have this hypereducated ruling-class mentality, and we need to realize that's not making us connect with a lot of voters.

I look at my own party, and I see that we've taken this technocratic, academic, elitist liberal class philosophy as far as it can go, and we got our butts kicked - and I don't know what else to do other than get involved myself.

I don't regret standing up to Gamergate at all.

The Internet has done so much for so many. It allows women and minorities to have access to education, training, and information that sometimes isn't available to them for whatever reason.

The real question is whether or not the communities that rule the Internet can make their spaces safer for users, especially women and minorities.

The public will forgive you almost anything if you're honest about it.

Something that's hard for me, I remember being a child in the '80s and looking at this field. It was a field I wanted very much to go into, but I didn't see people who looked like me working in video games. You can't really be it if you can't see it.

What's the fundamental problem that VR solves better than anything? To me it's straightforward. It's story. VR tells stories better than any medium.

I don't want to be a hardware engineer. That seems like a terrible job.

GamerGate has had an almost indescribable toll on my family.

In software engineering, we have the term 'technical debt.' When you don't do a job correctly, unaddressed problems become harder and harder to solve.

Gamergate isn't the problem - it's a symptom of an industry that is deeply sexist and unable to understand it.

The truth is, the sexist behaviour that really holds women in games back doesn't come from the moustache-twirling cartoon villains of Gamergate. It's the sexist hiring practices of our journalistic institutions. It's the consistently over-sexualised designs we see.

In some ways, the real damage of Gamergate is pushing the public's idea of sexism so far to the extreme, that changes in the professional sphere seem unimportant.

The truth is, the game industry is a really incredibly difficult place for women to work.

The first game I remember being ridiculously passionate about was Super Mario Bros. 2. It was the first game where you could play as Princess Peach. It wasn't just a game where the boys had their adventure. Peach was in the game and she was so powerful there.

My dad is in Mississippi. He exited the Navy and made a ton of money as an entrepreneur.

My mom bought a computer in the '80s to do accounting, and she was so smart at computers that we spent all our time with them. My childhood was sitting on the floor of her office and figuring out how to program with my mom.

Entrepreneurship is in my nature.

If you run a website where people can congregate, you have a moral responsibility to make sure that community is not harassed.

A lot of people don't know this about me but actually I started in politics.

I work in the tech industry and my husband works in biotech. He's head of IP for a company listed on the NASDAQ. And we have a lot of discussions in tech and biotech about the role of unionization in our industries.

I'm a reasonably accomplished journalist. I've worked as an investigative journalist, I've done crime beat stuff.

I love people that kind of have those life experiences that take them different places.

There are a lot of bad Divas on SmackDown that like to cheat a little bit.

I'm going to be an ambassador for WWE.

I'm very close to every girl in the locker room.

We always called ourselves Divas. I came in through Diva Search. I was a Divas Champion. I always felt like it had this negative feeling to it because a Diva is so much more high maintenance, and that's the last thing we women wrestlers are.

I feel like people always thought my sister and I were models. I think it was just because if you went through Diva Search, that's just what you were. We were never models; we were athletes. We were athletes who fell in love with wrestling.

You're gonna lose looks when it comes with age, but if you have that sense of humor, it will always keep things great in a relationship.

An ideal night for myself and my boyfriend would be going to the farmers market, making ourselves a nice meal, and then anything outdoorsy.

Just because our work environment is crazy doesn't mean we need to bring the craziness home.

I definitely don't see what people do for a living. I feel that doesn't define you as a human being; who you are defines you. I couldn't care less about what you do.

I have such an amazing relationship with my mom, and I think, 'Wow, I'm going to have that with my daughter.'

It's not even about looking good; it's about feeling good inside. Celebrity Sweat makes everyone aware of that but in a fun way with their favorite athletes.

People can't stand the fact that, yes, we were models, but now we can kick anyone's butt in the ring.

When we came into this business, everyone was against us.

College wasn't for us. We just didn't have the attention span.

We're not perfect; no one's perfect. You know how many people have been injured in the ring? But for some reason, I was, like, showcased in such a way of, like, this evil person and 'Look what she's done,' and I got bullied really bad.

Out in the WWE ring, we have to play so much bad guy, good guy, don't talk to your competitors, but backstage, you'll see that we're all really close, and it affects us.

We never want to go out there and hurt each other, so when it happens, it's emotional.

I think sometimes wrestling fans will feel different, but the thing is, 'Total Divas' introduced women's wrestling to the world.

The first time I ever saw women wrestling, I immediately felt connected. I thought, 'This is what I'm supposed to do.'

Growing up, we were always the feisty Latin girls.