181 Quotes by Karen Joy Fowler

"Antagonism in my family comes wrapped in layers of code, sideways feints, full deniability. I believe the same can be said of many families."

"I'm unclear on the definition of person the courts have been using. Something that sieves out dolphins but lets corporations slide on through."

"In the phrase ' human being,' the word 'being' is much more important than the word 'human.'"

"I wonder sometimes if I'm the only one spending my life making the same mistake over and over again or if that's simply human. Do we all tend toward a single besetting sin?"

"The value of money is a scam perpetrated by those who have it over those who don't"

"I am the daughter of a psychologist. I know that the thing ostensibly being studied is rarely the thing being studied. (We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, p. 99)"

"Just ask yourself, if we weren't taught to be women, what would we be? (Ask yourself this question even if you're a man, and don't cheat by changing the words.)"

"Where you succeed will never matter so much as where you fail."

"Pheromones are Earth's primordial idiom."

". . . strange and fantastic things really happen. During a rainstorm in Australia, fish fall from the sky; several Southern states consider legislation that would make the licking of toads illegal; Lisa Presley marries Michael Jackson. You read these things and you think to yourself that realism may not be the best medium through which to express the real world."