Top 120 Karen Joy Fowler Quotes (2024 Update)
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Karen Joy Fowler Quote: “I appreciated her vigor. I admired her choices though I wouldn’t have made them. Freak or fake, I’d been asking myself ever since I arrived at college, and here was someone bold enough to be both.”

101. “I appreciated her vigor. I admired her choices though I wouldn’t have made them. Freak or fake, I’d been asking myself ever since I arrived at college, and here was someone bold enough to be both.”

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Karen Joy Fowler Quote: “Why does the extraordinary courage of ordinary women go so unsung?”

102. “Why does the extraordinary courage of ordinary women go so unsung?”

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Karen Joy Fowler Quote: “This is a good reminder that no one in the world is a reliable source for their own story.”

103. “This is a good reminder that no one in the world is a reliable source for their own story.”

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Karen Joy Fowler Quote: “The spoken word converts individual knowledge into mutual knowledge, and there is no way back once you’ve gone over that cliff.”

104. “The spoken word converts individual knowledge into mutual knowledge, and there is no way back once you’ve gone over that cliff.”

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Karen Joy Fowler Quote: “The monkey girl had made another unscheduled appearance, and it had landed her in jail again. When would she learn to behave with restraint and decorum?”

105. “The monkey girl had made another unscheduled appearance, and it had landed her in jail again. When would she learn to behave with restraint and decorum?”

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Karen Joy Fowler Quote: “Because any misbehavior in a younger child was always the fault of the older. That was how a family worked.”

106. “Because any misbehavior in a younger child was always the fault of the older. That was how a family worked.”

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Karen Joy Fowler Quote: “One morning I was bicycling to class when a large flock of Canada geese passed overhead. I couldn’t see them, or much of anything else, but I heard the jazzy honking.”

107. “One morning I was bicycling to class when a large flock of Canada geese passed overhead. I couldn’t see them, or much of anything else, but I heard the jazzy honking.”

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Karen Joy Fowler Quote: “So many problems, however infinitely varied they first appear, turn out to be matters of money. I can’t tell you how much this offends me. the value of money is a scam perpetrated by those who have it over those who don’t; it’s Emperor’s New Clothes gone global. If chimps used money and we didn’t, we wouldn’t admire it. We’d find it irrational and primitive. Delusional. And why gold? Chimps barter with meat. The value of meat is self-evident.”

108. “So many problems, however infinitely varied they first appear, turn out to be matters of money. I can’t tell you how much this offends me. the value of money is a scam perpetrated by those who have it over those who don’t; it’s Emperor’s New Clothes gone global. If chimps used money and we didn’t, we wouldn’t admire it. We’d find it irrational and primitive. Delusional. And why gold? Chimps barter with meat. The value of meat is self-evident.”

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Karen Joy Fowler Quote: “I’m red as a berry, shiny from the pickling of the womb, and squinting at the world through suspicious, slitted eyes.”

109. “I’m red as a berry, shiny from the pickling of the womb, and squinting at the world through suspicious, slitted eyes.”

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Karen Joy Fowler Quote: “Have you ever noticed,” Rosalie asks, “that the coloreds are always singing of the coming glory and the Irish are always singing of the glory lost?”

110. “Have you ever noticed,” Rosalie asks, “that the coloreds are always singing of the coming glory and the Irish are always singing of the glory lost?”

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Karen Joy Fowler Quote: “So the studies don’t back me up. There’ll always be more studies. We’ll change our minds and I’ll have been right all along until we change our minds again, send me back to being wrong.”

111. “So the studies don’t back me up. There’ll always be more studies. We’ll change our minds and I’ll have been right all along until we change our minds again, send me back to being wrong.”

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Karen Joy Fowler Quote: “Scientists have solved the problem of solipsism with a strategy called ‘inference to the best explanation’. It’s a cheap accommodation, and no one is happy about it, with the possible exception of those alien overlords.”

112. “Scientists have solved the problem of solipsism with a strategy called ‘inference to the best explanation’. It’s a cheap accommodation, and no one is happy about it, with the possible exception of those alien overlords.”

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Karen Joy Fowler Quote: “Once, he’d dreamed of experimental fusions, that he would be the one to merge folk harps with anime. Now he saw the incommensurability. In his own words: matter and antimatter. The end of the world.”

113. “Once, he’d dreamed of experimental fusions, that he would be the one to merge folk harps with anime. Now he saw the incommensurability. In his own words: matter and antimatter. The end of the world.”

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Karen Joy Fowler Quote: “No more politics, Grandma Donna had said as a permanent new rule, since we wouldn’t agree to disagree and all of us had access to cutlery.”

114. “No more politics, Grandma Donna had said as a permanent new rule, since we wouldn’t agree to disagree and all of us had access to cutlery.”

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Karen Joy Fowler Quote: “One Mother’s Day, he gave Mom a music box that played the theme from Swan Lake. She cried for days over it.”

115. “One Mother’s Day, he gave Mom a music box that played the theme from Swan Lake. She cried for days over it.”

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Karen Joy Fowler Quote: “My old kindergarten behaviors, so appalling when I was a kindergartner myself, are apparently quite acceptable in a teacher.”

116. “My old kindergarten behaviors, so appalling when I was a kindergartner myself, are apparently quite acceptable in a teacher.”

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Karen Joy Fowler Quote: “There seemed no end to the insane things fathers did to their families.”

117. “There seemed no end to the insane things fathers did to their families.”

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Karen Joy Fowler Quote: “I often felt wild back then; I enjoyed the feeling, but nothing had ever come of it.”

118. “I often felt wild back then; I enjoyed the feeling, but nothing had ever come of it.”

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Karen Joy Fowler Quote: “Grief had destroyed Rosalie’s parents. It seemed that God had reached down and scooped out the middle of the family as casually as if he were eating a watermelon.”

119. “Grief had destroyed Rosalie’s parents. It seemed that God had reached down and scooped out the middle of the family as casually as if he were eating a watermelon.”

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Karen Joy Fowler Quote: “My uncle Bob sees the whole world in a fun-house mirror, TRUST NO ONE lipsticked luridly across its bowed face.”

120. “My uncle Bob sees the whole world in a fun-house mirror, TRUST NO ONE lipsticked luridly across its bowed face.”

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Karen Joy Fowler Quote: “It’s true that, as my brother grew larger, he also grew dangerous, same as my sister. But they’re still ours and we want them back. They’re needed here at home.”

121. “It’s true that, as my brother grew larger, he also grew dangerous, same as my sister. But they’re still ours and we want them back. They’re needed here at home.”

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Karen Joy Fowler Quote: “Please assume that I am talking continuously in all the scenes that follow until I tell you that I’m not.”

122. “Please assume that I am talking continuously in all the scenes that follow until I tell you that I’m not.”

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Karen Joy Fowler Quote: “We call them feelings because we feel them.”

123. “We call them feelings because we feel them.”

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Karen Joy Fowler Quote: “And that right there is the difference between me and my brother – I was always afraid of being made to leave and he was always leaving.”

124. “And that right there is the difference between me and my brother – I was always afraid of being made to leave and he was always leaving.”

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Karen Joy Fowler Quote: “She thinks that she’s performing grief rather than feeling it.”

125. “She thinks that she’s performing grief rather than feeling it.”

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Karen Joy Fowler Quote: “Tryptophan: a chemical in turkey meat rumored to make you sleepy and careless. One of the many minefields in the landscape of the family Thanksgiving.”

126. “Tryptophan: a chemical in turkey meat rumored to make you sleepy and careless. One of the many minefields in the landscape of the family Thanksgiving.”

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Karen Joy Fowler Quote: “Whatev was the first hand sign I learned at college, but there were several popular then. There was the thumb-and-index-finger L held against the forehead, which meant Loser. The whatev W could be flipped up and down, W to M to W to M, in which case it meant Whatever, your mother works at McDonald’s. ‘Cause that’s the way we rolled back in ’92.”

127. “Whatev was the first hand sign I learned at college, but there were several popular then. There was the thumb-and-index-finger L held against the forehead, which meant Loser. The whatev W could be flipped up and down, W to M to W to M, in which case it meant Whatever, your mother works at McDonald’s. ‘Cause that’s the way we rolled back in ’92.”

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Karen Joy Fowler Quote: “Before, my brother was part of the family. After, he was just killing time until he could be shed of us.”

128. “Before, my brother was part of the family. After, he was just killing time until he could be shed of us.”

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Karen Joy Fowler Quote: “Our parents met at the Lowell Observatory in Arizona at a high school summer science camp. “I’d come to see the heavens,” our father always said. “But the stars were in her eyes,” a line that used to please and embarrass me in equal measure. Young geeks in love.”

129. “Our parents met at the Lowell Observatory in Arizona at a high school summer science camp. “I’d come to see the heavens,” our father always said. “But the stars were in her eyes,” a line that used to please and embarrass me in equal measure. Young geeks in love.”

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Karen Joy Fowler Quote: “When you think of two things to say, pick your favorite and only say that, my mother suggested once, as a tip to polite social behavior, and the rule was later modified to one in three.”

130. “When you think of two things to say, pick your favorite and only say that, my mother suggested once, as a tip to polite social behavior, and the rule was later modified to one in three.”

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