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Top 25 Karen Kilgariff Quotes (2024 Update)

Karen Kilgariff Quote: “It was a dark time. Most of my decisions came from a place of believing the garbage that found its way into my head that, despite ample evidence otherwise, insisted I was ugly, stupid, and worthless. And that narrative told me I didn’t have the right to take things slow, or insist we use a condom, or even to just say, “Stop.” That self-advocacy stuff wasn’t for girls like me, girls who were taught that their worthiness was determined by who was in love with them.”

1. “It was a dark time. Most of my decisions came from a place of believing the garbage that found its way into my head that, despite ample evidence otherwise, insisted I was ugly, stupid, and worthless. And that narrative told me I didn’t have the right to take things slow, or insist we use a condom, or even to just say, “Stop.” That self-advocacy stuff wasn’t for girls like me, girls who were taught that their worthiness was determined by who was in love with them.”

— Karen Kilgariff

Karen Kilgariff Quote: “We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out. – RAY BRADBURY.”

2. “We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out. – RAY BRADBURY.”

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Karen Kilgariff Quote: “Sometimes you just have to jump out the window and grow wings on the way down. – RAY BRADBURY.”

3. “Sometimes you just have to jump out the window and grow wings on the way down. – RAY BRADBURY.”

— Karen Kilgariff

Karen Kilgariff Quote: “Friendship leads to human connection, which feeds your soul. More than kale or spinning or fifteen-minute naps under your desk, conscious communication with your clutch friends is the best form of self-care.”

4. “Friendship leads to human connection, which feeds your soul. More than kale or spinning or fifteen-minute naps under your desk, conscious communication with your clutch friends is the best form of self-care.”

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Karen Kilgariff Quote: “There’s really nothing like the self-righteousness of the partially informed.”

5. “There’s really nothing like the self-righteousness of the partially informed.”

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Karen Kilgariff Quote: “Don’t treat your friends like they’re the audience of your one-woman show. These are people who are good to you. Offer to them something high-vibrational. Think to yourself, What’s the most exciting thing I can say to this person?”

6. “Don’t treat your friends like they’re the audience of your one-woman show. These are people who are good to you. Offer to them something high-vibrational. Think to yourself, What’s the most exciting thing I can say to this person?”

— Karen Kilgariff

Karen Kilgariff Quote: “But for women, it’s so much more than that. The politeness that we’re raised to prioritize, first and foremost, against our better judgment and whether we feel like being polite or not, is the perfect systematically ingrained personality trait for manipulative, controlling people to exploit.”

7. “But for women, it’s so much more than that. The politeness that we’re raised to prioritize, first and foremost, against our better judgment and whether we feel like being polite or not, is the perfect systematically ingrained personality trait for manipulative, controlling people to exploit.”

— Karen Kilgariff

Karen Kilgariff Quote: “Motivation isn’t necessary,” she said. “You just have to do it.”

8. “Motivation isn’t necessary,” she said. “You just have to do it.”

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Karen Kilgariff Quote: “Politeness is fancy curtains in your front window. Kindness is the home-cooked meal on your dinner table.”

9. “Politeness is fancy curtains in your front window. Kindness is the home-cooked meal on your dinner table.”

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Karen Kilgariff Quote: “I was watching the beauty boat slowly pull out of port as I stood alone on the dock of permanent invisibility.”

10. “I was watching the beauty boat slowly pull out of port as I stood alone on the dock of permanent invisibility.”

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Karen Kilgariff Quote: “Find the one thing you love and shut up about it.”

11. “Find the one thing you love and shut up about it.”

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Karen Kilgariff Quote: “I’d become a drooling, pathetic lunatic for a guy who clearly had no interest, but was probably bored and liked being adored, so he’d come sniffing around every four to eight months.”

12. “I’d become a drooling, pathetic lunatic for a guy who clearly had no interest, but was probably bored and liked being adored, so he’d come sniffing around every four to eight months.”

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Karen Kilgariff Quote: “Thinking back, I don’t know how anyone else who grew up when I did didn’t become obsessed with true crime. The ’80s practically forced it down our throats in the name of TV ratings. There isn’t one person my age who doesn’t still get the chills when they hear the gravelly, soothing voice of Robert Stack or hear the creepy theme song from Unsolved Mysteries.”

13. “Thinking back, I don’t know how anyone else who grew up when I did didn’t become obsessed with true crime. The ’80s practically forced it down our throats in the name of TV ratings. There isn’t one person my age who doesn’t still get the chills when they hear the gravelly, soothing voice of Robert Stack or hear the creepy theme song from Unsolved Mysteries.”

— Karen Kilgariff

Karen Kilgariff Quote: “She taught us that the sad truth is, you can’t stay out of the forest because the world is a forest. And it’s filled with predators. If someone is assaulted, it wasn’t because they were careless, irresponsible, or dressed wrong.”

14. “She taught us that the sad truth is, you can’t stay out of the forest because the world is a forest. And it’s filled with predators. If someone is assaulted, it wasn’t because they were careless, irresponsible, or dressed wrong.”

— Karen Kilgariff

Karen Kilgariff Quote: “People who don’t care “yes and” you. They’ll help you stir that soup of sadness you’re making because it somehow feeds them, too.”

15. “People who don’t care “yes and” you. They’ll help you stir that soup of sadness you’re making because it somehow feeds them, too.”

— Karen Kilgariff

Karen Kilgariff Quote: “Politeness doesn’t require actual humanity. It’s just cultural ritual. Kindness means you actually care and have good intentions toward a person. It means you think about them as much as you think about yourself. Politeness is fancy curtains in your front window. Kindness is the home-cooked meal on your dinner table.”

16. “Politeness doesn’t require actual humanity. It’s just cultural ritual. Kindness means you actually care and have good intentions toward a person. It means you think about them as much as you think about yourself. Politeness is fancy curtains in your front window. Kindness is the home-cooked meal on your dinner table.”

— Karen Kilgariff

Karen Kilgariff Quote: “When people sit down to have a conversation, all they’re looking for is something they can agree on or participate in with you.”

17. “When people sit down to have a conversation, all they’re looking for is something they can agree on or participate in with you.”

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Karen Kilgariff Quote: “I just downloaded the audiobook of Michelle McNamara’s I’ll Be Gone in the Dark and all I want to do is listen to it while I paint my nails, but deadlines are a thing, so I’m writing down the top ten biggest therapy epiphanies of my life like a boss instead. I’m not motivated, but these words! They just keep showing up on my screen! Point being, you don’t have to bound into every situation ready to kick ass, you just have to show up, and once you’re there, you might as well do your best.”

18. “I just downloaded the audiobook of Michelle McNamara’s I’ll Be Gone in the Dark and all I want to do is listen to it while I paint my nails, but deadlines are a thing, so I’m writing down the top ten biggest therapy epiphanies of my life like a boss instead. I’m not motivated, but these words! They just keep showing up on my screen! Point being, you don’t have to bound into every situation ready to kick ass, you just have to show up, and once you’re there, you might as well do your best.”

— Karen Kilgariff

Karen Kilgariff Quote: “Why does everyone think whistling indicates relaxation? It’s literally one of the weirdest things you can do in public without breaking the law.”

19. “Why does everyone think whistling indicates relaxation? It’s literally one of the weirdest things you can do in public without breaking the law.”

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Karen Kilgariff Quote: “And as goes Ohio, so goes the nation.”

20. “And as goes Ohio, so goes the nation.”

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Karen Kilgariff Quote: “The first thing you learn in life is you’re a fool. The last thing you learn in life is you’re the same fool. – RAY BRADBURY, Dandelion Wine.”

21. “The first thing you learn in life is you’re a fool. The last thing you learn in life is you’re the same fool. – RAY BRADBURY, Dandelion Wine.”

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Karen Kilgariff Quote: “Basically, instead of labeling myself as someone who suffers from depression or anxiety or whatever, I have to remind myself that I’m actually trying to thrive with depression or anxiety or whatever. I can’t use my diagnosis as an excuse to throw a protective barrier over myself or an invisibility cloak to hide from life. It’s time to throw that coat, and this coat metaphor, away and use more productive tools to cope.”

22. “Basically, instead of labeling myself as someone who suffers from depression or anxiety or whatever, I have to remind myself that I’m actually trying to thrive with depression or anxiety or whatever. I can’t use my diagnosis as an excuse to throw a protective barrier over myself or an invisibility cloak to hide from life. It’s time to throw that coat, and this coat metaphor, away and use more productive tools to cope.”

— Karen Kilgariff

Karen Kilgariff Quote: “All you had to do was pull a book from the shelf and open it and suddenly the darkness was not so dark anymore. – RAY BRADBURY, Farewell Summer.”

23. “All you had to do was pull a book from the shelf and open it and suddenly the darkness was not so dark anymore. – RAY BRADBURY, Farewell Summer.”

— Karen Kilgariff

Karen Kilgariff Quote: “If necessity is the mother of invention, then rebellion is her cool aunt.”

24. “If necessity is the mother of invention, then rebellion is her cool aunt.”

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Karen Kilgariff Quote: “So you pack up your dreams and move here like a hip, arty Dorothy heading to a sexy version of Oz. But then you arrive to find it’s a five-hundred-square-mile parking lot filled with plastic surgery and parties you’re not invited to.”

25. “So you pack up your dreams and move here like a hip, arty Dorothy heading to a sexy version of Oz. But then you arrive to find it’s a five-hundred-square-mile parking lot filled with plastic surgery and parties you’re not invited to.”

— Karen Kilgariff

Karen Kilgariff Quote: “After what seemed like eons of heartache, the pain slowly dissipated. I was able to make sense of it and see myself as the protagonist in the story, not as the stupid, foolish love interest. I stopped looking for him in crowds, stopped dreaming of running into him, stopped imagining some magic bolt of electricity hitting his brain, causing him to realize the error of his ways and beg for me to take him back.”

26. “After what seemed like eons of heartache, the pain slowly dissipated. I was able to make sense of it and see myself as the protagonist in the story, not as the stupid, foolish love interest. I stopped looking for him in crowds, stopped dreaming of running into him, stopped imagining some magic bolt of electricity hitting his brain, causing him to realize the error of his ways and beg for me to take him back.”

— Karen Kilgariff

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