Katherine Dunn Quotes

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Katherine Dunn

Profession : Novelist

Birth : October 24, 1945

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

I know if I were in your generation I would be really tired of seeing Sophia Loren as a sex object.

Katherine Dunn

Asked why they wanted to fight, the young women said they enjoyed it, just as some men and boys do.

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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.

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American culture is torn between our long romance with violence and our terror of the devastation wrought by war and crime and environmental havoc.

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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.

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But the idea that women can't take care of themselves still permeates our culture.

Katherine Dunn

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.

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This idea that males are physically aggressive and females are not has distinct drawbacks for both sexes.

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Training of female athletes is so new that the limits of female possibility are still unknown.

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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.

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Writing nonfiction of various kinds has been instructive and entertaining as well as paying the rent.

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There should be unemployment insurance for fictional people.

Katherine Dunn

Most professional fighters, male and female, hold day jobs, but the women's game attracts a wide social spectrum: hash slingers, teachers, police officers, landscapers, stuntwomen. Many are wives and mothers. Their husbands or boyfriends work their corners, or hide in arena restrooms, scared to watch their bouts.

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In the United States, female fisticuffs were marginalized, first as erotic vaudeville in the 19th century and later as serious competition developed in the first half of the 20th. Legal wars waged by boxers in the 1960s and '70s won women the right to compete professionally nationwide.

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Anthropologists believe women were among the skilled boxers of the ancient, sport-loving Minoan culture that flourished on Crete until 1100 B.C. The boxing booths at English fairs featured women in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

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Only one sport can subsume my life at a time.

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I was reading a lot of European history, and I thought Attila the Hun had gotten a bad rap.

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I'm slow by everybody's standards. But not by mine.

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The denial of female aggression is a destructive myth. It robs an entire gender of a significant spectrum of power, leaving women less than equal with men and effectively keeping them 'in their place' and under control.

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