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Top 30 Mary Robinette Kowal Quotes (2025 Update)

Mary Robinette Kowal Quote: “Nathaniel and I were a healthy young married couple, so most of the stars I saw were painted across the inside of my eyelids.”

1. “Nathaniel and I were a healthy young married couple, so most of the stars I saw were painted across the inside of my eyelids.”

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Mary Robinette Kowal Quote: “The difference between fanfic and a “real” novel is that fanfic is honest about its inspiration.”

2. “The difference between fanfic and a “real” novel is that fanfic is honest about its inspiration.”

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Mary Robinette Kowal Quote: “If you don’t know by now, you own me, heart, mind, body, and soul.”

3. “If you don’t know by now, you own me, heart, mind, body, and soul.”

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Mary Robinette Kowal Quote: “It’s not about adding diversity for the sake of diversity, it’s about subtracting homogeneity for the sake of realism.”

4. “It’s not about adding diversity for the sake of diversity, it’s about subtracting homogeneity for the sake of realism.”

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Mary Robinette Kowal Quote: “How many of us had died leaving no one behind to light the yahrzeit candles and recite the Kaddish prayer?”

5. “How many of us had died leaving no one behind to light the yahrzeit candles and recite the Kaddish prayer?”

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Mary Robinette Kowal Quote: “I have three books you need to read. Rise of the Rocket Girls by Nathalia Holt, Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly, and The Glass Universe by Dava Sobel. All three of these books focus on the women mathematicians – the “computers” – who powered astronomy and rocketry.”

6. “I have three books you need to read. Rise of the Rocket Girls by Nathalia Holt, Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly, and The Glass Universe by Dava Sobel. All three of these books focus on the women mathematicians – the “computers” – who powered astronomy and rocketry.”

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Mary Robinette Kowal Quote: “It’s a hard thing to look at something you want and to know that the right choice is to turn it down.”

7. “It’s a hard thing to look at something you want and to know that the right choice is to turn it down.”

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Mary Robinette Kowal Quote: “It’s hard to convince people that catastrophic weather changes are coming on a nice day.”

8. “It’s hard to convince people that catastrophic weather changes are coming on a nice day.”

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Mary Robinette Kowal Quote: “Nothing today had done her any real harm, yet she felt as though her nerves had been flayed and left out for the tanner.”

9. “Nothing today had done her any real harm, yet she felt as though her nerves had been flayed and left out for the tanner.”

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Mary Robinette Kowal Quote: “I would rather have you honestly angry with me than polite.”

10. “I would rather have you honestly angry with me than polite.”

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Mary Robinette Kowal Quote: “Fiction is people having extraordinary reactions to ordinary things, but in genre fiction, they have ordinary reactions to extraordinary things.”

11. “Fiction is people having extraordinary reactions to ordinary things, but in genre fiction, they have ordinary reactions to extraordinary things.”

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Mary Robinette Kowal Quote: “I would say your passion, but that’s part of being headstrong. Or your conviction, but that’s related to being obstinate. Fearless, but that is a combination of both. Perhaps, then, I shall cite your love of Brussels sprouts.”

12. “I would say your passion, but that’s part of being headstrong. Or your conviction, but that’s related to being obstinate. Fearless, but that is a combination of both. Perhaps, then, I shall cite your love of Brussels sprouts.”

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Mary Robinette Kowal Quote: “I must not undervalue my work simply because I enjoy it. A working artist understands his worth and lives by it.”

13. “I must not undervalue my work simply because I enjoy it. A working artist understands his worth and lives by it.”

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Mary Robinette Kowal Quote: “Perfection is different to every viewer.”

14. “Perfection is different to every viewer.”

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Mary Robinette Kowal Quote: “She sighed to cover her agitation. “You are insufferable.” “I prefer ‘inscrutable.’” He smiled, softening a little at her teasing tone, and because she had allowed the change of topic. “Inexplicable would be more accurate.” “Inconceivable!” She rested her hand on her ever-increasing stomach. “Not any longer.” He laughed and kissed her on the forehead. “I do not think that word means what you think it means.” “Humph!” But Jane was delighted that she had managed to make him laugh.”

15. “She sighed to cover her agitation. “You are insufferable.” “I prefer ‘inscrutable.’” He smiled, softening a little at her teasing tone, and because she had allowed the change of topic. “Inexplicable would be more accurate.” “Inconceivable!” She rested her hand on her ever-increasing stomach. “Not any longer.” He laughed and kissed her on the forehead. “I do not think that word means what you think it means.” “Humph!” But Jane was delighted that she had managed to make him laugh.”

— Mary Robinette Kowal

Mary Robinette Kowal Quote: “I dug into the thigh pocket of my trousers – by the way, the best thing about life on the Moon is all the pockets –.”

16. “I dug into the thigh pocket of my trousers – by the way, the best thing about life on the Moon is all the pockets –.”

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Mary Robinette Kowal Quote: “Without a plane, what was I supposed to do? Math the problem to death?”

17. “Without a plane, what was I supposed to do? Math the problem to death?”

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Mary Robinette Kowal Quote: “I respect secrets, but I would rather have you tell me that something is off-limits than have you give me misinformation. A hole in the data, I can work with.”

18. “I respect secrets, but I would rather have you tell me that something is off-limits than have you give me misinformation. A hole in the data, I can work with.”

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Mary Robinette Kowal Quote: “There’s a thing that happens to people when they are helpless. They become afraid of things that in their normal life wouldn’t faze them at all.”

19. “There’s a thing that happens to people when they are helpless. They become afraid of things that in their normal life wouldn’t faze them at all.”

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Mary Robinette Kowal Quote: “Then Sister Aquinata abandoned the nonviolent methods and produced a rolling pin from somewhere.”

20. “Then Sister Aquinata abandoned the nonviolent methods and produced a rolling pin from somewhere.”

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Mary Robinette Kowal Quote: “Following my usual overreaction, I had filled it with mounds of mashed potatoes, boiled greens, curried lentils, chicken parmesan, and two types of cake. Recognizing a cycle and being able to stop said cycle are not the same thing.”

21. “Following my usual overreaction, I had filled it with mounds of mashed potatoes, boiled greens, curried lentils, chicken parmesan, and two types of cake. Recognizing a cycle and being able to stop said cycle are not the same thing.”

— Mary Robinette Kowal

Mary Robinette Kowal Quote: “Grief pops up at the strangest times.”

22. “Grief pops up at the strangest times.”

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Mary Robinette Kowal Quote: “Even geniuses can be stupid when they’re scared.”

23. “Even geniuses can be stupid when they’re scared.”

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Mary Robinette Kowal Quote: “The entire lounge reeked of too much effort and not enough thought.”

24. “The entire lounge reeked of too much effort and not enough thought.”

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Mary Robinette Kowal Quote: “I blame the length on Brandon Sanderson.”

25. “I blame the length on Brandon Sanderson.”

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Mary Robinette Kowal Quote: “I am walloping someone with a haddock.”

26. “I am walloping someone with a haddock.”

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Mary Robinette Kowal Quote: “My mother once told me that an apology wasn’t about being right or wrong, but showing that the relationship was more important than the problem.”

27. “My mother once told me that an apology wasn’t about being right or wrong, but showing that the relationship was more important than the problem.”

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Mary Robinette Kowal Quote: “You mammoring lobster.”

28. “You mammoring lobster.”

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Mary Robinette Kowal Quote: “Now, explain it to me very slowly, like I’m a congressman.”

29. “Now, explain it to me very slowly, like I’m a congressman.”

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Mary Robinette Kowal Quote: “She glanced to the side at a screen and smiled. “Ah. Good. The nice thing about being old as Methuselah is that you have time to get to know a lot of people. An old golf buddy works for Legal and is aboard and is not a vending machine of toad farts. Expect a call shortly.”

30. “She glanced to the side at a screen and smiled. “Ah. Good. The nice thing about being old as Methuselah is that you have time to get to know a lot of people. An old golf buddy works for Legal and is aboard and is not a vending machine of toad farts. Expect a call shortly.”

— Mary Robinette Kowal

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