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" I don't think I have any particular problem with God. "
Naomi Alderman
Problem
Think
Particular
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" Feminists are asking the practical questions about how you want to live your life. "
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Live
" Writers of feminist dystopian fiction are alert to the realities that grind down women's lives, that make the unthinkable suddenly thinkable. "
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Down
Grind
Women
" The demands of having to be 'masculine' are as damaging to men as the demands of having to be 'feminine' are to women. I wish we could all agree just to wash it all away. Begin again. "
Naomi Alderman
Women
I Wish
Away
" I find it particularly irritating, if I go to a games conference to speak about my work, that often it's presumed that I'm the marketing girl - that's annoying. "
Naomi Alderman
Work
Find
Games
" The value of the arts cannot be measured by its ability to preserve life but rather to enhance existence. "
Naomi Alderman
Existence
Life
Ability
" 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
Energy
Feeling
" In general, I'd rather ask questions and look stupid than keep quiet and not understand what someone's talking about. "
Naomi Alderman
Talking
Questions
Quiet
" 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
Job
Window
Office
" I listen to terrible music when exercising. I mean, like, early Madonna, Boney M, the Fratellis, Shakira... I can't claim interesting musical taste. "
Naomi Alderman
Early
Interesting
Music
" For millennia, human beings have been finding new ways to look at the world through each others' eyes: from projecting ourselves onto the characters in novels or movies to dressing up in costume to devouring the details of some celebrity's life in 'Hello' or 'OK.' "
Naomi Alderman
Eyes
Details
Life
" 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
Work
Long
Life
" When a marriage founders, this may well be cause for tremendous sadness, but it's not a failure of spirit or character. People change, their goals and dreams alter, their ideas of themselves grow, or they just meet someone they like better. "
Naomi Alderman
Dreams
Failure
Goals
" 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
Experience
You
People
" If you hold strong convictions against gay marriage, you shouldn't apply for a job as a registrar. "
Naomi Alderman
Strong
You
Against
" 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
World
Powerful
" Competitive sports may be where exercise becomes 'fun' for children who are good at it, but for those who are less talented, it is where exercise becomes not only physically demanding but also emotionally painful and socially humiliating. "
Naomi Alderman
Good
Fun
Exercise
" It is a very different feeling to be in a fat body that is moving a lot to one that hardly moves at all. It feels like love. As simple and as joyful as that. "
Naomi Alderman
Simple
Moving
Feeling
" 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
Ideas
Bible
Age
" We all know that the desire for perfection can get in the way of authenticity and enjoyment; it's the same with games. There's a completist part to many of us that can't rest until we reach the perfect 100% finish point. "
Naomi Alderman
Reach
Know
Perfect
" I am someone who really would like to see more women in government, but Palin makes me cringe every time I hear about her. "
Naomi Alderman
Government
Women
Time
" I honestly can't think of many more truly romantic gestures than a really well-thought-through prenuptial agreement. "
Naomi Alderman
Agreement
Think
More
" 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
Good
Beauty
Beautiful
" No one in tech has ever been as sexist toward me as teachers and rabbis before I was 12 years old. "
Naomi Alderman
Been
Me
Teachers
" 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
School
Skills
Teach
" More choice doesn't make us happy, and we understand that no one has infinite choices about how to live life. "
Naomi Alderman
Choices
Live
Life
" 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. "
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Identity
Women
Long
" 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
First
Cartoon
Amazing
" I wish it were true that every child had access to an education that helped them reach their full potential. "
Naomi Alderman
Child
Potential
Education
" The arts are valuable because they increase our sense of what it means to be human, not because of any specific skill or ability they confer. "
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Sense
Skill
Our
" I get migraines. I've had them all my life; so has my dad. So did his grandmother, although back then they called them 'sick headaches.' "
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Grandmother
Sick