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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
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. Naomi Alderman
Me Library Mother Old Parents Year Before Few Every Would Both Take Days Readers Year-Old Intellectuals
I was reading the Bible in Hebrew from a very young age, so that'll shape ideas about how words can move the world. Naomi Alderman
Bible Age Words World Reading Young About Shape Ideas How Very Move Young Age Hebrew
You can't write a thing that is hermetically sealed; there has to be a way for the audience to get in and participate. I think that's a massively valuable discipline for any artist. Naomi Alderman
You Discipline Valuable Think Way Write Participate Massively Audience Get Any Artist Sealed Thing
I've always had a real interest in the way that science fiction can portray a world that could be different to our world, which I find a really exciting thought. Naomi Alderman
Science World Thought Our Way Our World Find Be Different Could Had Exciting Science Fiction Always Real Different Fiction Which Interest Really Portray
For years, I looked down on my mother for shopping at Asda, and now I feel very ashamed of it. Naomi Alderman
Shopping Mother Down Feel Looked Years Very Ashamed Now
Attending a book group is always a salutary experience for a writer. There's no guarantee that the people there will have enjoyed your book, and, as anyone who has taken part in a book group will know, half the fun is in ripping a book you haven't liked to shreds. Naomi Alderman
You Experience Book People Will Half Group No Guarantee Ripping Writer Part Taken Attending Know Liked Always Salutary Anyone Your Who Fun Enjoyed Guarantee
I got my first library card, for Hendon Library in north London, when I was two years old. Naomi Alderman
Library Old First London Got Years North Card Two
The value of the arts cannot be measured by its ability to preserve life but rather to enhance existence. Naomi Alderman
Life Value Ability Rather Existence Arts Cannot Measured Enhance Preserve
Twitter's strength - and its weakness - is that it makes it extremely easy to share every passing thought with everyone on your friends list. Naomi Alderman
Strength Thought Every Twitter Everyone Extremely Weakness Easy Share Makes Passing Friends List Your
I honestly can't think of many more truly romantic gestures than a really well-thought-through prenuptial agreement. Naomi Alderman
Think Honestly More Truly Than Gestures Romantic Really Many Agreement
What makes 'The Handmaid's Tale' so terrifying is that everything that happens in it is plausible. Naomi Alderman
Everything Tale Terrifying Makes Handmaid Happens Plausible
Writers of feminist dystopian fiction are alert to the realities that grind down women's lives, that make the unthinkable suddenly thinkable. Naomi Alderman
Women Down Writers Unthinkable Make Feminist Fiction Realities Dystopian Grind Suddenly Lives Thinkable Alert
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. Naomi Alderman
You Side Entirely Point Point Of View Exist Same Depends Which View Your Moment Even
What I want is a world where neither gender nor sex are destiny. Where no child is ever told there's anything they can't do, or must do, 'because you're a boy' or 'because you're a girl.' It's not a world where anything is 'taken' from anyone - it's one where everyone's possibilities are enlarged. Naomi Alderman
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Let's teach boys at school the personally and economically valuable skills of self-expression and emotional intelligence, of mediation and problem-solving. Naomi Alderman
Intelligence School Valuable Emotional Emotional Intelligence Economically Self-Expression Boy Problem-Solving Personally Skills Teach Mediation
I've only got anywhere with Minecraft by getting my friends to explain it. Naomi Alderman
Only Got Friends Getting Anywhere Explain
I wish that positions of power dependent on education were as open to abused children, poor children, working-class children as they are to the children of the rich and successful. I really wish that were true. Naomi Alderman
Education Power Wish Rich Positions Open True Abuse Were Dependent Children Poor Really Successful Working-Class
Personal trainers, however nice, give me PE teacher flashbacks. Naomi Alderman
Teacher Me Nice Give Give Me However Trainers Personal
I've been a comics fan since my first hit of those gateway drawings: Judy, Asterix, and the TV cartoon 'Spider-Man and his Amazing Friend' - which naturally led me to Spider-Man comics. Naomi Alderman
Me Amazing First Those Drawings Spider-Man TV Cartoon Since Judy Comics Been His Led Friend Hit Fan Which Naturally Gateway
The hilarity or brilliance of a forwarded link is inversely proportional to the number of people it's sent to. Naomi Alderman
People Inversely Proportional Link Sent Brilliance Number
As someone who went to school in the '70s and '80s, I can't say that I noticed much of a 'medals for all' culture myself. Naomi Alderman
Myself Culture School Say Someone Much Noticed Who Medals
The women's movement gave me a set of tools to think about things like my body and how people react to me and the way that my dating life was going. It's a very practical movement - yes, it's about issues like how we can get more women MPs elected, but it's also about how feminism affects things like your relationship. Naomi Alderman
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It's absolutely delightful to get dressed up for a lovely evening, but when it goes from being a fun thing to being a chore, and a chore that men don't have to do, then we need to think about it differently. Naomi Alderman
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My childhood was full of shocks and alarums, and I had to work a long time to make a life that pleases me. Naomi Alderman
Life Work Time Me Long Long Time Pleases Had Make Shocks Childhood Full
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