Karen Joy Fowler
Karen Joy Fowler
Karen Joy Fowleris an American author of science fiction, fantasy, and literary fiction. Her work often centers on the nineteenth century, the lives of women, and alienation...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth7 February 1950
CountryUnited States of America
believe layers my-family
Antagonism in my family comes wrapped in layers of code, sideways feints, full deniability. I believe the same can be said of many families.
definitions corporations slides
I'm unclear on the definition of person the courts have been using. Something that sieves out dolphins but lets corporations slide on through.
important phrases humans
In the phrase ' human being,' the word 'being' is much more important than the word 'human.'
mistake sin sometimes
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?
scams value-of-money values
The value of money is a scam perpetrated by those who have it over those who don't
daughter psychologist knows
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)
men taught cheat
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.)
succeed matter failing
Where you succeed will never matter so much as where you fail.
earth pheromones idiom
Pheromones are Earth's primordial idiom.
real fall thinking
. . . 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.
austen
Each of us has a private Austen.
humans subjects
There's science and there's science, is all I'm saying. Where humans are the subjects, it's mostly not science
parent wish easier
But no one is easier to delude than a parent; they see only what they wish to see.
beautiful sleep white
You can’t imagine the white-hot fury someone who can’t sleep has toward the beautiful dreamer beside him.