A biography for Naomi Aldermanhasn’t been written yet.
“If gaming were seen as an art, the important question would be not whether games are good for us but whether they are good, full stop.”
“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.”
“Computer games can be works of art and literature - they're still developing. The stories they can tell, and the experiences they provide, are increasingly sophisticated and glorious.”
“What I want is a world where neither gender nor sex are destiny. Where no child is ever told there's anything they can't do, or must do, 'because you're a boy' or 'because you're a girl.' It's not a world where anything is 'taken' from anyone - it's one where everyone's possibilities are enlarged.”
“I honestly can't think of many more truly romantic gestures than a really well-thought-through prenuptial agreement.”
“My childhood was full of shocks and alarums, and I had to work a long time to make a life that pleases me.”
“While 'Iron Man' is tremendous fun, it's another reminder of the pressure on all of us to make ourselves increasingly perfect and a little less human. And that is something it is important to resist.”
“I suppose the idea about all Orthodox religion is that it's a kind of submission, obedience.”
“I am a geek, and proud of it.”
“I've got the brain for systems and a head for figures.”
“I've been a comics fan since my first hit of those gateway drawings: Judy, Asterix, and the TV cartoon 'Spider-Man and his Amazing Friend' - which naturally led me to Spider-Man comics.”
“I've always been a reader of science fiction, and I have loved a lot of feminist science fiction.”
“I love books. I want to read them, and I want to own them so they're always available to be reread.”
“The value of the arts cannot be measured by its ability to preserve life but rather to enhance existence.”
“My parents are both intellectuals and readers; my mother would take me to the library every few days from before I was one year old.”
“If something is a problem, it's all right to admit it.”
“The arts are valuable because they increase our sense of what it means to be human, not because of any specific skill or ability they confer.”
“I was reading the Bible in Hebrew from a very young age, so that'll shape ideas about how words can move the world.”
“It's very easy for a writer to spend much too much time in her head.”
“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!”