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Naomi Alderman Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: english
Birth: 1974

Topics

Marriage Job Strong You Gay Hold

Trying to describe something musical is like dancing to architecture, it's really difficult.

Architecture Trying Difficult Dancing

The truth is that nearly everybody is right about some things and wrong about most things; and if a man's testimony is not to be taken until he is right on every subject, witnesses will be extremely scarce.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Truth Man Truth Is Wrong Will Right

Whatever is powerful to you can be translated into something which will matter to somebody that you will never know.

Jeanette Winterson

You Powerful Know Will Matter Never

I am a writer who happens to love women. I am not a lesbian who happens to write.

Jeanette Winterson

Love Women I Am Write To Love Who

I had a weird accent. Dutch people speak American English, and my parents were Jamaican, with their own broken English.

Broken Parents People Speak Weird

I am actually incredibly contented and jolly. But, and I have no idea why this is, I have a really strong empathy with all kinds of warped and destructive modes of thinking. I don't know why, but those things co-exist.

I Am Empathy Strong Thinking Know

In a bid for change, we have to take off our coats, be prepared to lose our comfort and security, our jobs and positions of prestige, and our families... A struggle without casualties is no struggle.

Change Struggle Lose Security Take

I have a very conveniently photographic memory of emotions - it's overwhelming, because things don't fade for me.

Memory Me Emotions Fade Things Very

The noble man is only God's image.

God Man Image Noble Only

We can think so much about life and take ourselves so seriously; I mean, I like to tell people, 'Don't take life too seriously' because you'll cloud the experience. That's what the meaning of life is to me - being able to enjoy the moment.

Janine Shepherd

Life Moment Experience People Me

The biggest thrill wasn't in winning on Sunday but in meeting the payroll on Monday.

Monday Winning Sunday Meeting Thrill

I remember just calling myself gay was a big step for me, and I remember being in the bathroom brushing my teeth, testing out to myself in the mirror, saying, 'I am gay,' and seeing if the world was going to stop or if the ceiling would fall in on me.

Mirror Myself I Am Step Me World

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