Top 200 Naomi Alderman Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “Cuando una multitud habla con una sola voz, eso es fuerza y poder.”

— Naomi Alderman

152. “We don’t have to ask ourselves what they will do if they win. We’ve already seen it.”

— Naomi Alderman

153. “However complex you think it is, it is more complex than that.”

— Naomi Alderman

154. “The way I see it, I’m dead, and so are you. What do dead people do for fun around here?”

— Naomi Alderman

155. “If you’re going to stay here, you’re going to need to own the place so they can’t take it from you. The only way you’re safe, honeybun, is if you own it.”

— Naomi Alderman

156. “There are strange movements rising now, not only across the world, but right here in the US of A. You can see it on the internet. Boys dressing as girls to seem more powerful.”

— Naomi Alderman

157. “You know what they say about “truth” and “the appearance of truth” being opposites.”

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158. “Beneath every story, there is another story. There is a hand within the hand – hasn’t Allie learned that well enough? There is a blow behind the blow.”

— Naomi Alderman

159. “So I went walking, like the independent woman I am.”

— Naomi Alderman

160. “We send electric currents down orderly runs of circuits and switches, but the shape that electricity wants to take is of a living thing, a fern, a bare branch. The strike point in the center, the power seeking outward.”

— Naomi Alderman

161. “You can’t put anyone into a box. Listen, even a stone isn’t the same as any other stone, so I don’t know where you all think you get off labeling humans with simple words and thinking you know everything you need.”

— Naomi Alderman

162. “You would see good in the face of Satan himself if he arrived at your door with a pitiful story and a hungry belly.” “And would I be wrong to do so? If Satan needed feeding?”

— Naomi Alderman

163. “Ah, my dear,” Aunt Jane smiles kindly, “the problem with that, you see, is that no one is ever the murdering sort until they are.”

— Naomi Alderman

164. “The only way to be safe is to own the place.”

— Naomi Alderman

165. “She could run. There’s her dad’s voice in her head, saying, Take care of yourself, sweetie. And there’s her mon’s voice in her head, saying, You’re a hero, act like it.”

— Naomi Alderman

166. “She thinks to herself, If I was saved, there must be a reason.”

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167. “She sees it all in that instant, the shape of the tree of power. Root to tip, branching and re-branching. Of course, the old tree still stands. There is only one way, and that is to blast it entirely zo pieces.”

— Naomi Alderman

168. “For more than two thousand years, the only people recopying were nuns in convents. I don’t think it’s at all a stretch to suggest that they picked works to copy that supported their viewpoint and just let the rest molder into flakes of parchment. I mean, why would they re-copy works that said men used to be stronger and women weaker? That would be heresy, and they’d be damned for it.”

— Naomi Alderman

169. “It’s a hot night; the air feels damp, like there’s a storm brewing.”

— Naomi Alderman

170. “Not the past, not the lines of pain inscribed on the human body, not a thing will ever disappear.”

— Naomi Alderman

171. “Looking forward to this! I think I’d rather enjoy this “world run by men” you’ve been talking about. Surely a kinder, more caring and – dare I say it? – more sexy world than the one we live in.”

— Naomi Alderman

172. “God is neither woman nor man but both these things. But now She has come to show us a new side to Her face, one we have ignored for too long.”

— Naomi Alderman

173. “Screaming as they take a hit. Laughing as they deliver one.”

— Naomi Alderman

174. “There is no shape to anything except the shape it has. Every name we give ourselves is wrong.”

— Naomi Alderman

175. “To witness is the first responsibility.”

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176. “Well, apparently addressing racial inequality in one’s work is un-American, so I was hauled before the committee.”

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177. “When this thing happens, she is calm, floating above the storm, watching the raging sea below.”

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178. “Nothing worse has happened to him than to anyone. There is no reason for him to be afraid, no more reason than any other man.”

— Naomi Alderman

179. “One had done the thing to a boy because he asked her to: this story holds much interest for the girls. Could it be that boys like it? Is it possible they want it? Some of them have found internet forums that suggest that this is the case.”

— Naomi Alderman

180. “People are allowed to be weak.”

— Naomi Alderman

181. “What matters is that she could, if she wanted. The power to hurt is a kind of wealth.”

— Naomi Alderman

182. “The younger women can wake it up in the older ones; but from now on all women will have it.”

— Naomi Alderman

183. “How many miracles does it take? Not too many.”

— Naomi Alderman

184. “Children are born so small. It does not matter if they are boys or girls. They are all born so weak and so powerless.”

— Naomi Alderman

185. “He felt a sudden sadness, hanging like a stone pendant within his throat, the cold, smooth mass preventing him from speaking.”

— Naomi Alderman

186. “The names we give ourselves are wrong.”

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187. “I think I will never be any different than this.”

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188. “People make what they need for themselves.”

— Naomi Alderman

189. “It’s a sort of pride to her that she watched the whole thing without wincing or looking away or carrying on.”

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190. “He realizes now that he could not stop her, whatever she wanted to do now. The thought is terrifying. The thought is electrifying.”

— Naomi Alderman

191. “The knowledge is as good as freedom.”

— Naomi Alderman

192. “She has always known exactly how to be silent.”

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193. “I’m not who I was.”

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194. “For a man like Bar-Avo, everything is a constant present.”

— Naomi Alderman

195. “It is a gift. Who is it to say it does not come from God.”

— Naomi Alderman

196. “The shape of power is always the same; it is the shape of a tree.”

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197. “There was no greater hypocrite than one with a high moral tone, Miss Marple reflected.”

— Naomi Alderman

198. “This is the trouble with history. You can’t see what’s not there.”

— Naomi Alderman

199. “Jews: look to Miriam, not Moses... Muslims: look to Fatimah, not Muhammad. Buddhists: remember Tara, the mother of liberation. Christians: pray to Mary for your salvation.”

— Naomi Alderman

200. “A human being is made not by our own will but by that same organic, inconceivable, unpredictable, uncontrollable process that drives the unfurling leaves in season and the tiny twigs to bud and the roots to spread in tangled complications.”

— Naomi Alderman