Top 200 Naomi Alderman Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “Not the past, not the lines of pain inscribed on the human body, not a thing will ever disappear.”

— Naomi Alderman

152. “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

153. “Age is cruel, and crueller still to women. A woman becomes a ghost when she stops being worth looking at.”

— Naomi Alderman

154. “Oxford is beautiful; its beauty is its plumage, its method of procreation. The beauty of the dream of Oxford, of spires and quiet learning, of the life of the mind, of effortless superiority, all these had beguiled me.”

— Naomi Alderman

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

— Naomi Alderman

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

— Naomi Alderman

157. “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

158. “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

159. “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

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

— Naomi Alderman

161. “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

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

— Naomi Alderman

163. “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

164. “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

165. “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

166. “Simple feels safe. Certainty feels safe.”

— Naomi Alderman

167. “We experience the greatest happiness when we have touched the world and left it better, according to the Will of the Almighty.”

— Naomi Alderman

168. “It was transported by tanker to friendly nations: to Hawaii and to Mexico, to Norway, to South Africa and to Ethiopia.”

— Naomi Alderman

169. “It’s not what I’ve done, Allie thinks to herself, it’s what I’m going to do. And the voice says: It’s what Eve’s going to do.”

— Naomi Alderman

170. “When does power exist? Only in the moment it is exercised.”

— Naomi Alderman

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

— Naomi Alderman

172. “That’s one thing about Scott – he makes everything seem simple, because in his mind everything is.”

— Naomi Alderman

173. “In her game, she didn’t need a gun, or space-helmet, or lightsaber. In the game Margot played when she was a child, she was enough all by herself.”

— Naomi Alderman

174. “Consider this: which is greater, God or the world?” They say, for they have learned this already from the nuns, “God is greater, because God created the world.” Eve says, “So the one who creates is greater than the thing created?” They say, “It must be so.” Then Eve says, “So which must be greater, the Mother or the Son?”

— Naomi Alderman

175. “To witness is the first responsibility.”

— Naomi Alderman

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

— Naomi Alderman

177. “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

178. “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

179. “People are allowed to be weak.”

— Naomi Alderman

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

— Naomi Alderman

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

— Naomi Alderman

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

— Naomi Alderman

183. “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

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

— Naomi Alderman

185. “We are electrical. The power travels within us as it does in nature.”

— Naomi Alderman

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

— Naomi Alderman

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

— Naomi Alderman

190. “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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191. “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

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

— Naomi Alderman

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

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194. “Cuando una multitud habla con una sola voz, eso es fuerza y poder.”

— Naomi Alderman

195. “I’m not who I was.”

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

— Naomi Alderman

197. “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

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

— Naomi Alderman

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

— Naomi Alderman

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

— Naomi Alderman