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.) Karen Joy Fowler More Quotes by Karen Joy Fowler More Quotes From Karen Joy Fowler Baby, high school's over. High school's never over. Karen Joy Fowler high-school baby school A man says something. Sometimes it turns out to be the truth, but this has nothing to do with the man who says it. Karen Joy Fowler turns sometimes men Owls hoot in B flat, cuckoos in D, but the water ousel sings in the voice of the stream. She builds her nest back of the waterfalls so the water is a lullaby to the little ones. Must be where they learn it. Karen Joy Fowler voice owl water It was the marriage that was important; Jane Austen rarely even bothered to write about the wedding. Karen Joy Fowler austen important writing There was something appealing in thinking of a character with a secret life that her author knew nothing about. Slipping off while the author's back was turned, to find love in her own way. Showing up just in time to deliver the next bit of dialogue with an innocent face. Karen Joy Fowler finding-love character thinking We all have a sense of level. It may not be based on class exactly anymore, but we still have a sense of what we're entitled to. People pick partners who are nearly their equal in looks. The pretty marry the pretty, the ugly the ugly. To the detriment of the breed. Karen Joy Fowler class people looks You've done so many things and read so many books. Do you still believe in happy endings?" "Oh my Lord, yes." Bernadette's hands were pressed against each other like a book, like a prayer. "I guess I would. I've had about a hundred of them. Karen Joy Fowler prayer believe book Every mother can easily imagine losing a child. Motherhood is always half loss anyway. The three-year-old is lost at five, the five-year-old at nine. We consort with ghosts, even as we sit and eat with, scold and kiss, their current corporeal forms. We speak to people who have vanished and, when they answer us, they do the same. Naturally, the information in these speeches is garbled in the translation. Karen Joy Fowler mother loss children Pheromones are Earth's primordial idiom. Karen Joy Fowler idiom pheromones earth . . . 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. Karen Joy Fowler real fall thinking There's science and there's science, is all I'm saying. Where humans are the subjects, it's mostly not science Karen Joy Fowler subjects humans But no one is easier to delude than a parent; they see only what they wish to see. Karen Joy Fowler easier parent wish You can’t imagine the white-hot fury someone who can’t sleep has toward the beautiful dreamer beside him. Karen Joy Fowler white sleep beautiful 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) Karen Joy Fowler psychologist daughter knows The value of money is a scam perpetrated by those who have it over those who don't Karen Joy Fowler value-of-money scams values You learn as much from failure as from success, Dad always says. Though no one admires you for it. Karen Joy Fowler admire-you admire dad The sunset you see is always better than the one you don’t. More stars are always better than less. Karen Joy Fowler sunset stars Sometimes you best avoid talking by being quiet, but sometimes you best avoid talking by talking. Karen Joy Fowler talking sometimes quiet In the phrase ' human being,' the word 'being' is much more important than the word 'human.' Karen Joy Fowler phrases important humans 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? Karen Joy Fowler wonder mistake sometimes
