Power Quotes by Naomi Alderman

“Gender is a shell game. What is a man? Whatever a woman isn't. What is a woman? Whatever a man is not. Tap on…

— Naomi Alderman

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

— Naomi Alderman

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…

— Naomi Alderman

I was there on 9/11. I watched the towers falling from my office window, at which point I decided I would give up my…

— Naomi Alderman

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

— Naomi Alderman

I've got the brain for systems and a head for figures.

— Naomi Alderman

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

— Naomi Alderman

We all know that the desire for perfection can get in the way of authenticity and enjoyment; it's the same with games. There's a…

— Naomi Alderman

I hated sports at school. Almost everyone did.

— Naomi Alderman

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

— Naomi Alderman

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

— Naomi Alderman

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…

— Naomi Alderman

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

— Naomi Alderman

“intuition is just like that: sudden and complete, as if there were machinery working behind her eyes that even she has no access to.…

— Naomi Alderman

Writers of feminist dystopian fiction are alert to the realities that grind down women's lives, that make the unthinkable suddenly thinkable.

— Naomi Alderman