English - Novelist | 1974 -
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 job at a law firm in Manhattan and come back to the U.K.
Naomi Alderman
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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.
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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.
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I was incredibly inspired by Oprah Winfrey as a young woman.
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The worst things that ever happened to me were before I was 20. It has been slow, hard-won improvement since then.
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I've got the brain for systems and a head for figures.
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I grew up an Orthodox Jew, and now I'm not an Orthodox Jew. So I have sympathy for people who lose their faith.
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I am a geek, and proud of it.
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There's some really good stuff in the way I was brought up. There's some really rubbish stuff as well.
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I suppose the idea about all Orthodox religion is that it's a kind of submission, obedience.
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I don't think I have any particular problem with God.
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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.
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