Katherine Dunn

Prior to penicillin and medical research, death was an everyday occurrence. It was intimate.

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.

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.

A lot of women in sport tend to take on a very masculine, aggressive look. They want to be perceived as being strong and powerful. I never lost that sense of wanting to retain my femininity.

We may be so eager to protect the right to dissent that we lose sight of the difference between dissent and subversion.

But with each passing year and each new study, the evidence for the genetic contribution to individual and group differences becomes more firmly established than ever.