Katherine Dunn Quotes

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• Women who pay their own rent don't have to be nice.
• In our struggle to restrain the violence and contain the damage, we tend to forget that the human capacity for aggression is more than a…
• Defining men as the perpetrators of all violence is a viciously immoral judgment of an entire gender. And defining women as inherently nonviolent condemns us…
• And while national military forces have historically resisted the full participation of women soldiers, female talent has found plenty of scope in revolutionary and terrorist…
• But the idea that women can't take care of themselves still permeates our culture.
• Asked why they wanted to fight, the young women said they enjoyed it, just as some men and boys do.
• Every doorway, every intersection has a story.
• I think genetic research is a fascinating and fertile area.
• I come from a family of great readers and storytellers.
• Perhaps the strongest evidence that women have as broad and deep a capacity for physical aggression as men is anecdotal. And as with men, this…
• I know if I were in your generation I would be really tired of seeing Sophia Loren as a sex object.
• Well, it arose out of two long-term concerns - the first being the possibility of genetic manipulation, nature versus nurture, what constitutes how people get…
• Let's just say, the American school of suburban angst is not my cup of tea.
• It is coincidence, I decide, and I am getting old and batty, thinking the universe revolves around me.
• I am here, come closer," the old donkey said with her eyes. "I will mother you.
• The more potent, unasked question is how society at large reacts to eager, voluntary violence by females, and to the growing evidence that women can…
• Beside Mama, in my own folding chair, with my feet sticking out in front of me, I thought about my own innards. Just a few…
• But the animation has become very good, and I think that a movie is not a book, and a book is not a movie.
• Just as a snowflakewent on to feed a puddle that filled a stream and then the river, thepumpkin patch is a gathering of molecules from…
• In the end I would always pull up with a sense of glory, that loving is the strong side. It's feeble to be an object.…

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