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Katherine Dunn
American
Novelist
About the author
Asked why they wanted to fight, the young women said they enjoyed it, just as some men and boys do.
Katherine Dunn,
American
Novelist
#Men
#Fight
#Women
#Boys
What I think happens, and that you have to acknowledge though, is that a director uses a book as a launching pad for his own work and that's always very flattering.
Katherine Dunn,
American
Novelist
#Work
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 be just as aggressive as men.
Katherine Dunn,
American
Novelist
#Men
#Society
#Question
#Violence
#Women
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 capacity has expressed itself in acts from the brave to the brutal, the selfless to the senseless.
Katherine Dunn,
American
Novelist
#Men
#Deep
#Women
#Aggression
Prior to penicillin and medical research, death was an everyday occurrence. It was intimate.
Katherine Dunn,
American
Novelist
#Death
#Research
#Medical
The intense campaigns against domestic violence, rape, sexual harassment, and inequity in the schools all too often depend on an image of women as weak and victimized.
Katherine Dunn,
American
Novelist
#Violence
#Women
#Schools
The second is the structure and source of cults. They have always haunted me, and I wanted to explore the fundamental notion of giving up responsibility to an outside power.
Katherine Dunn,
American
Novelist
#Responsibility
#Power
#Giving
This idea that males are physically aggressive and females are not has distinct drawbacks for both sexes.
Katherine Dunn,
American
Novelist
#Idea
#Sexes
Training of female athletes is so new that the limits of female possibility are still unknown.
Katherine Dunn,
American
Novelist
#Training
#Possibility
#Limits
#Athletes
Let's just say, the American school of suburban angst is not my cup of tea.
Katherine Dunn,
American
Novelist
#American
#School
#Tea
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 to be how they are.
Katherine Dunn,
American
Novelist
#People
#Being
#First
#Nature
#Manipulation
#Possibility
I come from a family of great readers and storytellers.
Katherine Dunn,
American
Novelist
#Family
We're also far enough from the publishing power that we have no access to the politics of publishing, although there are interpersonal politics, of course.
Katherine Dunn,
American
Novelist
#Power
#Publishing
#Politics
But I went to high school in a Portland suburb and went to college here.
Katherine Dunn,
American
Novelist
#School
#College
American culture is torn between our long romance with violence and our terror of the devastation wrought by war and crime and environmental havoc.
Katherine Dunn,
American
Novelist
#Crime
#War
#American
#Culture
#Violence
#Terror
#Environmental
#Romance
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 groups around the planet.
Katherine Dunn,
American
Novelist
#Talent
#Military
#Women
#Soldiers
#Participation
I know if I were in your generation I would be really tired of seeing Sophia Loren as a sex object.
Katherine Dunn,
American
Novelist
#Sex
But I think everybody should write. I think those people with stories who don't write should be stomped on.
Katherine Dunn,
American
Novelist
#People
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 monstrous defect, that it is also a crucial survival tool.
Katherine Dunn,
American
Novelist
#Forget
#Violence
#Survival
#Aggression
#Struggle
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,
American
Novelist
#Animation
But the idea that women can't take care of themselves still permeates our culture.
Katherine Dunn,
American
Novelist
#Culture
#Idea
#Women
#Care
Every doorway, every intersection has a story.
Katherine Dunn,
American
Novelist
I have been a believer in the magic of language since, at a very early age, I discovered that some words got me into trouble and others got me out.
Katherine Dunn,
American
Novelist
#Words
#Trouble
#Language
#Magic
#Age
I think genetic research is a fascinating and fertile area.
Katherine Dunn,
American
Novelist
#Research
I think that it's really important to go away and come back.
Katherine Dunn,
American
Novelist