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" 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! "

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" 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

School

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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. "

" I suppose the idea about all Orthodox religion is that it's a kind of submission, obedience. "

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

" 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.' "

" 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. "

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

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

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

Naomi Alderman

Games

Think

" I have no wish to offend, but I do think that holy cows need challenging. "

" 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.' "

" More choice doesn't make us happy, and we understand that no one has infinite choices about how to live life. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The hilarity or brilliance of a forwarded link is inversely proportional to the number of people it's sent to. "

" 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. "

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

" I listen to terrible music when exercising. I mean, like, early Madonna, Boney M, the Fratellis, Shakira... I can't claim interesting musical taste. "

" 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. "

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

" I've always been a reader of science fiction, and I have loved a lot of feminist science fiction. "

" If gaming were seen as an art, the important question would be not whether games are good for us but whether they are good, full stop. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I don't think I have any particular problem with God. "

" I honestly can't think of many more truly romantic gestures than a really well-thought-through prenuptial agreement. "

Naomi Alderman

Agreement

Think

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

" 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. "