American culture is torn between our long romance with violence and our terror of the devastation wrought by war and crime and… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
The more potent, unasked question is how society at large reacts to eager, voluntary violence by females, and to the growing evidence… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
The intense campaigns against domestic violence, rape, sexual harassment, and inequity in the schools all too often depend on an image of… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
In our struggle to restrain the violence and contain the damage, we tend to forget that the human capacity for aggression is… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
I do consider the human capacity for violence is the central issue of the social contract. In boxing we have a peculiarly… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
Defining men as the perpetrators of all violence is a viciously immoral judgment of an entire gender. And defining women as inherently… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
Though 'Fat City' was written long before cellphones or the Internet, its human apparatus is state of the art. — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
A boxing gym is a place where men are allowed to be kind to one another. — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
My own theory about the phlegmatic qualities and properties of the English is the mountain of pure white sugar hydrocarbons they consume every day… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
Sometimes we followed the crops, doing migrant labor. We did several years of tenant farming in Western Oregon starting in the early '50s. Later,… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
My handwriting was nothing to write home about, and I had this idea that calligraphy was like taking Latin in high school: that it… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
“There are those whose own vulgar normality is so apparent and stultifying that they strive to escape it. They affect flamboyant behavior and claim… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
Only a lunatic would want to be president. These lunatics are created deliberately by those who wish to be presided over. — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
In a really good, closely matched situation, the style of the boxer is every bit as explicit and specific to him as a painter's… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
But the animation has become very good, and I think that a movie is not a book, and a book is not a movie. — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image