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" 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
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" I think when I was 7, at school they got us all to write the story of Joseph and his brothers. I got a bit carried away and wrote 12 pages - everybody else wrote a page. The teacher was so impressed by it that she put it up on the wall for parents' evening. I thought, 'Oh, this is something that I really like that I also seem to be quite good at.' "
Naomi Alderman
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" I like things that take you by the hand and say, 'You think you know about this - you think you understand it - but there's so much that you don't.' "
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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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" 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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Library
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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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World
" It's very easy for a writer to spend much too much time in her head. "
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Her
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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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World
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" I honestly can't think of many more truly romantic gestures than a really well-thought-through prenuptial agreement. "
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Think
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" You learn the most from sitting down and doing the work, regularly, patiently, sometimes in hope, sometimes despairingly. "
Naomi Alderman
Sitting
Doing
Hope
" For years, I looked down on my mother for shopping at Asda, and now I feel very ashamed of it. "
Naomi Alderman
Down
Shopping
Years
" 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
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Every Day
Day
" 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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Child
Gender
" 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. "
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Situation
Violence
Blame
" Too many keep-fit ideas are designed for those who are already fit, and they're just no fun. "
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Who
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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. "
Naomi Alderman
Writing
Best
Myself
" 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
" I've been paid less than men I worked with who contributed less to the project. "
Naomi Alderman
Than
Less
Men
" There's some really good stuff in the way I was brought up. There's some really rubbish stuff as well. "
Naomi Alderman
Well
Way
Up
" 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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Work
Long
Life
" I really hope that men read 'The Power' and watch 'The Handmaid's Tale' and read 'The Handmaid's Tale.' "
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Watch
Men
Read
" 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
" The gaming world isn't filled only with violence and depravity. In fact, it's mostly enchanting. "
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Gaming
World
Violence
" I was reading the Bible in Hebrew from a very young age, so that'll shape ideas about how words can move the world. "
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Ideas
Bible
Age
" 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
" The politics of fear are always the same. They are easily recognisable in retrospect. They are easy to acquiesce in at the time. "
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Always
Time
Same
" The thing about having true fans, it seems, is that they remain loyal to their idea of what the work meant to them. And that might make them more exacting than the toughest studio executive or publishing boss. "
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Work
Fans
More
" I suppose the idea about all Orthodox religion is that it's a kind of submission, obedience. "
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Obedience
About
Idea
" 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
" 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. "
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" I've always been a reader of science fiction, and I have loved a lot of feminist science fiction. "
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Always
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