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" 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. "

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" No one should ever feel obliged to speak or to put themselves out publicly online, but I do think it's a good thing to do. The more of us who are women, making our work and just going 'Here I am, here's my work,' the easier it gets for everybody. It's a good thing to do. "

Naomi Alderman

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" For years, I looked down on my mother for shopping at Asda, and now I feel very ashamed of it. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" My childhood was full of shocks and alarums, and I had to work a long time to make a life that pleases me. "

" If you hold strong convictions against gay marriage, you shouldn't apply for a job as a registrar. "

" I really hope that men read 'The Power' and watch 'The Handmaid's Tale' and read 'The Handmaid's Tale.' "

" I think some people's brains have more of a natural bent towards God than others. "

" I wish it were true that every child had access to an education that helped them reach their full potential. "

" The value of the arts cannot be measured by its ability to preserve life but rather to enhance existence. "

" When I was 19, I wrote a novel, which was not very good, but I finished it. "

" 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! "

" I love books. I want to read them, and I want to own them so they're always available to be reread. "

" 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. "

" The species will continue, whatever apocalypse we manage to unleash. It just won't be much fun to live through. "

" 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.' "

" Games don't cause racism. But the real-time chat makes nasty comments hard to moderate and easy to spread. "

" There's some really good stuff in the way I was brought up. There's some really rubbish stuff as well. "

Naomi Alderman

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" If something is a problem, it's all right to admit it. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" It's hard to describe why one room and not another feels right for writing. Of course you have to train yourself to be able to write anywhere, but it's nice to feel that each book has a place that belongs to it, where it's home. "

" I've only got anywhere with Minecraft by getting my friends to explain it. "

" 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. "

" Expect to be disgusted by your own early work. If writing is your vocation, if you hope that it might be your salvation, push on through the disgust until you find one true sentence, a few words that say more than you expected, something you didn't know until you set it down. "

" I was reading the Bible in Hebrew from a very young age, so that'll shape ideas about how words can move the world. "

" The gaming world isn't filled only with violence and depravity. In fact, it's mostly enchanting. "

" As a gamer, I can't think of anything more annoying for everyone concerned than playing games in a shared living room. "

Naomi Alderman

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" In general, I'd rather ask questions and look stupid than keep quiet and not understand what someone's talking about. "