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" I hated sports at school. Almost everyone did. "
Naomi Alderman
Hated
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School
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" There's some really good stuff in the way I was brought up. There's some really rubbish stuff as well. "
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" The hilarity or brilliance of a forwarded link is inversely proportional to the number of people it's sent to. "
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" Feminists are asking the practical questions about how you want to live your life. "
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Live
" 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. "
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" One of the hardest challenges posed by the modern world is how to deal with abundance. It's even harder to confront because admitting that it's a problem seems spoiled. "
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" 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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" I wish it were true that every child had access to an education that helped them reach their full potential. "
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" The worst things that ever happened to me were before I was 20. It has been slow, hard-won improvement since then. "
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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. "
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" I hope that there are many more women out there writing bits of feminist sci-fi. And men, also - men are allowed to write feminist things. "
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Writing
Write
" 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. "
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" For years, I looked down on my mother for shopping at Asda, and now I feel very ashamed of it. "
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Shopping
Years
" Our culture tends to denigrate things that are associated with women. It's OK for women to wear trousers, for example, but not OK for men to wear skirts. "
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Women
Things
" 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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Women
Long
" 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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Grind
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" 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
Children
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Brave
" The truth is, none of us is OK, not really. The best, most dear, most thoughtful and engaged and open and feminist men in my life have occasionally come out with some statement that's made me gasp. Then again, so have almost all the women. "
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Women
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Truth Is
" I've got the brain for systems and a head for figures. "
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Got
Figures
Head
" I've only got anywhere with Minecraft by getting my friends to explain it. "
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Explain
Only
Getting
" 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
" 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
" 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. "
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Exercise
" More choice doesn't make us happy, and we understand that no one has infinite choices about how to live life. "
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Live
Life
" No one in tech has ever been as sexist toward me as teachers and rabbis before I was 12 years old. "
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Me
Teachers
" I grew up an Orthodox Jew, and now I'm not an Orthodox Jew. So I have sympathy for people who lose their faith. "
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Sympathy
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Now
" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" After the novel was published, I came to feel that I couldn't call myself Orthodox anymore. It's so patriarchal, anti-women, anti-gay. There was something about writing 'Disobedience'... it felt like I had put it all in the book. I had done my best by it, recorded what it meant for me. I felt I was done. "
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Best
Myself
" 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. "
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Child
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" 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. "
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