now, you today have a very powerful, unique, creative voice. you use it loudly. how difficult was it to find that voice, to make that move away? now, i should say, i do come from a traditional observant background. however, my father is a professor of history. so from that perspective, i came from an intellectually very open culture, even whilst, yes, i have been to a talk as a young woman on the subject, the beauty of a woman is in her silence. so, yes. and you were brought up in a religion and you talk about it quite openly in stuff you ve written about your past, where at school, every morning, everybody said, thank you, god, for not making me a slave. and then the boys said, thank you, god, for not making me a woman. yes, and the girls say, thank you, god, for making me according to your will. yes, it s, in some ways, quite a misogynist religion. i think that is a very misogynist type of prayer. i think i became increasingly. well, i certainly increasingly had the
naomi alderman, welcome to hardtalk. thank you for having me. i want to start at the beginning. you were raised in a very traditional, observant orthodoxjewish community in north london where, i think it s fair to say, women and girls were expected, by and large, to stay in the background. now, you today have a very powerful, unique, creative voice. you use it loudly. how difficult was it to find that voice, to make that move away? now, i should say, i do come from a traditional observant background. however, my father is a professor of history. so from that perspective, i came from an intellectually very open culture, even whilst, yes, i have been to a talk as a young woman on the subject, the beauty of a woman is in her silence. so, yes. and you were brought up in a religion and you talk about it quite openly in stuff you ve written about your past, where at school, every morning, everybody said, thank you, god, for not making me a slave. and then the boys said, thank
women and girls were expected, by and large, to stay in the background. now, you today have a very powerful, unique, creative voice. you use it loudly. how difficult was it to find that voice, to make that move away? now, i should say, i do come from a traditional observant background. however, my father is a professor of history. so from that perspective, i came from an intellectually very open culture, even whilst, yes, i have been to a talk as a young woman on the subject, the beauty of a woman is in her silence. so, yes. and you were brought up in a religion and you talk about it quite openly in stuff you ve written about your past, where at school, every morning, everybody said, thank you, god, for not making me a slave. and then the boys said, thank you, god, for not making me a woman. yes. and the girls say, thank you, god, for making me according to your will. yes, it s, in some ways, quite a misogynist religion. i think that is a very misogynist type of praye
good afternoon. i m martha maccallum. this is a busy afternoon on the story. we are about to hear from president trump at the border. we re also waiting for an update on president biden s travel to brownsville, texas. so we ve got a lot of activity, a lot of things popping. these two individuals obviously very serious about this issue with regard to the campaign. they both want to win the 2024 presidential election. former president donald trump would like to be president again. president joe biden wants to keep his job. they ll have to find their way through this issue in order to do it. it s a big issue on voter s minds in this country. it s a crisis as we heard from the former homeland security secretary this morning on fox and friends. obviously all of this has a huge impact on cities across the country and small towns as well as migrants have flooded in to all of these areas. for example, athens. athens, georgia. the tragic death of laken riley at the alleged hands o
naomi alderman, welcome to hardtalk. thank you for having me. i want to start at the beginning. you were raised in a very traditional, observant orthodoxjewish community in north london where, i think it s fair to say, women and girls were expected, by and large, to stay in the background. now, you today have a very powerful, unique, creative voice. you use it loudly. how difficult was it to find that voice, to make that move away? now, i should say, i do come from a traditional observant background. however, my father is a professor of history. so from that perspective, i came from an intellectually very open culture, even whilst, yes, i have been to a talk as a young woman on the subject, the beauty of a woman is in her silence. so, yes. and you were brought up in a religion and you talk about it quite openly in stuff you ve written about your past, where at school, every morning, everybody said, thank you, god, for not making me a slave. and then the boys said, thank