Quotes by Naomi Alderman

"The politics of fear are always the same. They are easily recognisable in retrospect. They are easy to acquiesce in at the time."

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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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"Let's teach boys at school the personally and economically valuable skills of self-expression and emotional intelligence, of mediation and problem-solving."

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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 think when I was 7, at school they got us all to write the story of Joseph and his brothers. I got a bit carried away and wrote 12 pages - everybody else wrote a page. The teacher was so impressed by it that she put it up on the wall for parents' evening. I thought, 'Oh, this is something that I really like that I also seem to be quite good at.'"

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