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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.

~Naomi Alderman

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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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No human quality belongs to only one class of person. We all get to be both aggressive and loving. We all get to delight in our careers and revel in our children. We're all kind and brave, soft and hard, sciency and artsy, interested in being looked at and in admiring others' physical form. Everything.

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I used to think there was something cheap in trying to make beautiful sentences. Now I think language has its own ways and ends, and it does one's thinking good to try to serve them. Beauty isn't truth. But a certain kind of clear beauty will help in the pursuit of truth.

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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.

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I was reading the Bible in Hebrew from a very young age, so that'll shape ideas about how words can move the world.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Novelist

Born: Unknown

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