50 Naomi Alderman Quotes for You to Enjoy

Naomi Alderman

English Novelist

Born: 1974

Life Me People Think Women You

Related authors: Aldous Huxley Charles Dickens E. M. Forster J. R. R. Tolkien Thomas Hardy William Golding William Makepeace Thackeray

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

Politics Time Fear Recognisable Easily Easy Retrospect Always Same Acquiesce

Gaming is our cultural bogeyman - we blame it for everything from child obesity to violence to short attention spans. But any explanation that fits every situation ultimately explains nothing. Naomi Alderman

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

Woman Young Incredibly Inspired Oprah Oprah Winfrey Young Woman

We human beings get nervous if we don't know what's going on. It's the rule for creating scary stories: the unknown is always more frightening than the known. Naomi Alderman

Nervous Unknown Rule Scary More Know Known Always Than Frightening Get Going Human Human Beings Stories Creating Beings

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. Naomi Alderman

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. Naomi Alderman

Fitness Love You People Competition Win Style No Fun Vast Vast Majority Never Come Know Majority Exercise Always Contests Were Up Personal Who Fun Activity Compete Competitive

If I'm working every day, it's like pumping a pump. When you start, rusty water comes out, and then it runs clear. I do it even if I get completely stuck. Naomi Alderman

Day You Every Day Water Every Pump Pumping Out Runs Rusty Stuck Clear Like Get Then Working Even Start

Claude Cahun is a fascinating artist - one of the few women to be part of the surrealist movement, she and her partner Suzanne Malherbe took on men's names and made artworks that investigated female identity long before 'The Second Sex' or Cindy Sherman. Naomi Alderman

I hated sports at school. Almost everyone did. Naomi Alderman

Sports School Everyone Hated Almost Almost Everyone Did

I'd been to an Orthodox Jewish primary school where, every morning, the boys said, 'Thank you God for not making me a woman.' If you put that together with 'The Handmaid's Tale' in your head, something will eventually go fizz! Boom! Naomi Alderman

God Morning Me You Together Woman School Will Thank You Every Boom Something Put Head Primary Primary School Tale Boy Said Making Go Been Thank Handmaid Where Your Eventually Orthodox Jewish

I was there on 9/11. I watched the towers falling from my office window, at which point I decided I would give up my job at a law firm in Manhattan and come back to the U.K. Naomi Alderman

Law Job Back Would Law Firm Window Give Point Firm Towers Come Falling Up Office Manhattan Decided Which Watched

I had a year of panic attacks. I was feeling really pressured, like I could never do it again. With a first novel, you put things on hold because it takes so much mental energy and self-belief to keep on writing. Naomi Alderman

You Writing First Feeling Year Energy Panic Pressured Mental Mental Energy Attacks Could Never Had Put Takes Like Because Hold Again Much Really Novel Keep Things

I am a geek, and proud of it. Naomi Alderman

Geek Proud Am

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

God Problem Think Particular Particular Problem Any

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. Naomi Alderman

Class Quality Aggressive Others Our Everything Kind Physical Admiring Only Both Delight Looked Person Get Brave Human Being Children Form Interested Loving Hard Belongs Careers Soft

I feel powerful when I'm onstage talking to an audience. I like communicating; it feels like my calling in the world. Knowing what you're meant to be doing with your life is pretty bloody powerful. Naomi Alderman

Life You World Pretty Onstage Feel Powerful Feels Like Knowing Calling Talking Audience Doing Bloody Communicating Meant Meant To Be Your

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. Naomi Alderman

Beautiful Truth Good Try Language Will Beauty Own Think Thinking Ways Kind Something Pursuit Cheap Clear Make Does Trying Ends Them Sentences Certain Used Help Now Serve

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