The Strangers Quotes

“A woman is always too fat ('we're worried about your health') or too thin ('we're worried about your health'), she is always too young (to know anything) or too old (to be of interest), she is always too feminine (to be taken seriously) or too masculine (to be other than a figure of fun), always too intellectual (to be attractive) or too maternal and interested in children (to be a full adult). The state of being a woman is to be constantly in question, constantly asking oneself what one might do better or differently to be acceptable, never finding a lasting answer.”
― Naomi Alderman, The Strangers

“To demonstrate dying to one's children is the last act of parenting.”
― Naomi Alderman, The Strangers

“To write a book is an act of hope that one can be understood.”
― Naomi Alderman, The Strangers

“We can only live in the time we live.”
― Naomi Alderman, The Strangers

“Sometimes we have to go on, utterly broken, dragging ourselves on by our fingertips, in the hope that at some point something may happen that is different, something may begin to feel different. I know that it does, if one waits long enough. It won't always be what you expect. But something different will happen.”
― Naomi Alderman, The Strangers

“Perhaps because, at the end of it all, we live inside our brains which are in a dark, silent box and we cannot tunnel our way out of our own darkness alone.”
― Naomi Alderman, The Strangers