English - Novelist | 1974 -
No one in tech has ever been as sexist toward me as teachers and rabbis before I was 12 years old.
Naomi Alderman
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In general, I'd rather ask questions and look stupid than keep quiet and not understand what someone's talking about.
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I've been paid less than men I worked with who contributed less to the project.
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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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I hated sports at school. Almost everyone did.
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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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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.
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People who were always hardbodies love that competitive style of team-sports activity: they come up with timers and fitness contests and personal bests. But for the vast majority of people, competition in exercise is not fun. It's no fun to compete if you know you can never win.
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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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I listen to terrible music when exercising. I mean, like, early Madonna, Boney M, the Fratellis, Shakira... I can't claim interesting musical taste.
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I really hope that men read 'The Power' and watch 'The Handmaid's Tale' and read 'The Handmaid's Tale.'
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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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