The women's movement gave me a set of tools to think about things like my body and how people react to me and the way that my dating life was going. It's a very practical movement - yes, it's about issues like how we can get more women MPs elected, but it's also about how feminism affects things like your relationship.
More 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.
You learn the most from sitting down and doing the work, regularly, patiently, sometimes in hope, sometimes despairingly.
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.
The gaming world isn't filled only with violence and depravity. In fact, it's mostly enchanting.
The thing about having true fans, it seems, is that they remain loyal to their idea of what the work meant to them. And that might make them more exacting than the toughest studio executive or publishing boss.
I get migraines. I've had them all my life; so has my dad. So did his grandmother, although back then they called them 'sick headaches.'