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Quotes by Karen Joy Fowler

Technically a memoir, The Woman Warrior becomes almost magical through its inclusion of folk tales, dreams, and revisions.

“A man says something. Sometimes it turns out to be the truth, but this has nothing to do with the man who says it.”

“I didnt want a world in which I had to choose between blind human babies and tortured monkey ones. To be frank, thats the sort of choice I expect science to protect me from, not give me.”

“I once broke up with a boy because he wrote me an awful poem.”