Naomi Alderman

“the highest among us aren’t always the wisest,”

— Naomi Alderman

I am a geek, and proud of it.

— Naomi Alderman

“That is how a man speaks. And that is why.”

— Naomi Alderman

“When the people change, the palace cannot hold.”

— Naomi Alderman

“The power to hurt is a kind of wealth.”

— Naomi Alderman

I hated sports at school. Almost everyone did.

— Naomi Alderman

Writing is investigation.

— Naomi Alderman

I've been paid less than men I worked with who contributed less to the project.

— Naomi Alderman

It's very easy for a writer to spend much too much time in her head.

— Naomi Alderman

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

— Naomi Alderman

No one in tech has ever been as sexist toward me as teachers and rabbis before I was 12 years old.

— Naomi Alderman

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

— Naomi Alderman

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

— Naomi Alderman

“Power has her ways. She acts on people, and people act on her.”

— Naomi Alderman

Feminists are asking the practical questions about how you want to live your life.

— Naomi Alderman

“Dovid thought: our words will swallow us. We have spat them out, but in the end they will drown us.”

— Naomi Alderman

I grew up an Orthodox Jew, and now I'm not an Orthodox Jew. So I have sympathy for people who lose their…

— Naomi Alderman

I have a suspicion of lockstep and everyone looking in the same direction: that's a key character trait in me.

— Naomi Alderman

One of the hardest challenges posed by the modern world is how to deal with abundance. It's even harder to confront because…

— Naomi Alderman

Our body is there right now. You did not have to earn a thing. It is a gift. You are a hero…

— Naomi Alderman

The arts are valuable because they increase our sense of what it means to be human, not because of any specific skill…

— Naomi Alderman

“You do remember,” continues Semple, “that they turned overnight when the Shah fell and the Ayatollah came to power? You do remember…

— Naomi Alderman

I find the sneeriness about 'selfie-culture' quite boring - I'm excited by young people taking control of their own images and finding…

— Naomi Alderman

I wish that positions of power dependent on education were as open to abused children, poor children, working-class children as they are…

— Naomi Alderman

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…

— Naomi Alderman

“Nothing special has happened today; no one can say she was more provoked than usual. It is only that every day one…

— Naomi Alderman

Expect to be disgusted by your own early work. If writing is your vocation, if you hope that it might be your…

— Naomi Alderman

Competitive sports may be where exercise becomes 'fun' for children who are good at it, but for those who are less talented,…

— Naomi Alderman

“It is a terrible, wretched thing to love someone whom you know cannot love you. There are things that are more dreadful.…

— Naomi Alderman

It's hard to describe why one room and not another feels right for writing. Of course you have to train yourself to…

— Naomi Alderman

The thing about having true fans, it seems, is that they remain loyal to their idea of what the work meant to…

— Naomi Alderman

“It is a dreamer's doctrine. Visionary, astonishing. And a hard road, in times of war and occupation. If all involved had listened…

— Naomi Alderman

“The shape of power is always the same: it is infinite, it is complex, it is forever branching. While it is alive…

— Naomi Alderman

“Iehuda allowed his mind to follow, across the map of the wide world, across the empires and kingdoms that fought and tried…

— Naomi Alderman

“The thing about the Lexington International Bank ladder was that it was very long, and climbing it was very exhausting, and so…

— Naomi Alderman

“She had been here for the protests three years earlier; yes, she had held up her banner and shouted and signed her…

— Naomi Alderman

“It was like being part of a wave of water,” she says. “A wave of spray from the ocean feels powerful, but…

— Naomi Alderman

“time in the world over it; he’s smiling as he does it and then there’s a red hole in the middle of…

— Naomi Alderman

“On the thirteenth day of the fifth month of the third year after the Day of the Girls, Tatiana Moskalev brings her…

— Naomi Alderman

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

— Naomi Alderman