A Quote by Naomi Alderman

Writers of feminist dystopian fiction are alert to the realities that grind down women's lives, that make the unthinkable suddenly thinkable.

Naomi Alderman

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Naomi Alderman
English - Novelist
Born: 1974

It is absurd for the Evolutionist to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable God to make everything out of nothing and then pretend that it is more thinkable that nothing should turn itself into everything.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Although I write dystopian fiction, I don't believe in dystopian fantasies.

John Twelve Hawks

The unthinkable is thinkable. No: likely.

Tom Peters

One of the realities for women writers is that sometimes you'll start strong, but as you see people go up the ladder, working in their literary lives, getting prizes and awards and the better teaching gigs, women tend to sort of drop away.

Erin Belieu

Philosophy limits the thinkable and therefore the unthinkable.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

It was a time when the unthinkable became the thinkable and the impossible really happened

Arundhati Roy

What we learned on September 11 is that the unthinkable is now thinkable in the world

John Ashcroft

What we learned on September 11 is that the unthinkable is now thinkable in the world.

John Ashcroft

A lot of the things that until now seemed unthinkable are starting to be thinkable.

Nick Johnson

One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable.

Salman Rushdie

I don't think women are that vastly different from men. I'm a bit of a woman myself. But I'm not a feminist filmmaker. I'm not making a feminist thesis to prove that women are important. I just happen to make films with strong characters that are women.

Pawel Pawlikowski

For a lot of women who don't go to college, or for a lot of women who aren't in New York or D.C. or someplace where there's like a large feminist organization they can get involved in, they may be doing feminist work, right, like locally or with a grassroots organization or in their own lives, but if they don't have that support system and if they don't have that availability to feminist language, I think we're missing out on something.

Jessica Valenti

External realities - worlds of politics, economics, law, war, interpersonal and social relations - are part of prose fiction. Fiction also includes the realities of a character's interior language. Poetry can encompass the same realities, but in compressed, intensified language, which creates entirely different degrees of emotional force.

Lawrence Joseph

We're trying to make something that lasts in language and there's no question that many fiction writers began as poets and it's hard for me to think of any good fiction writers who don't also read poetry.

Edward Hirsch

The war in Afghanistan was fought for feminist reasons, and the Marines were really on this feminist mission. But today, all the women in all these countries have been driven back into medieval situations. Women who were liberated, women who were doctors and lawyers and poets and writers and - you know, pushed back into this Shia set against Sunnis. The U.S. is supporting al-Qaeda militias all over this region and pretending that it's fighting Islam. So we are in a situation that is psychopathic.

Arundhati Roy

That," he whispered, "is unthinkable." In Mosca’s experience, such statements generally meant that a thing was perfectly thinkable, but that the speaker did not want to think it.

Frances Hardinge

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