Top 25 Quotes by Katherine Dunn

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

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.

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

I come from a family of great readers and storytellers.

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.

I think genetic research is a fascinating and fertile area.

But I think everybody should write. I think those people with stories who don't write should be stomped on.

I think that it's really important to go away and come back.

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

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