But the idea that women can't take care of themselves still permeates our culture. — 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 the United States, female fisticuffs were marginalized, first as erotic vaudeville in the 19th century and later as serious competition developed… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
Women are real. Our reality covers the whole human megillah, from feeble to fierce, from bad to good, from endangered to dangerous.… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
The denial of female aggression is a destructive myth. It robs an entire gender of a significant spectrum of power, leaving women… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
My background is standard American blue collar of the itchy-footed variety. We're new-world mongrels. The women in the family read horoscopes, tea… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
Anthropologists believe women were among the skilled boxers of the ancient, sport-loving Minoan culture that flourished on Crete until 1100 B.C. The… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
Most professional fighters, male and female, hold day jobs, but the women's game attracts a wide social spectrum: hash slingers, teachers, police… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
We live with a distinct double standard about male and female aggression. Women's aggression isn't considered real. It isn't dangerous; it's only… — 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
