Top 25 Quotes by 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.

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.

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.

Let's just say, the American school of suburban angst is not my cup of tea.

But the animation has become very good, and I think that a movie is not a book, and a book is not a movie.

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

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.

Every doorway, every intersection has a story.

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.

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.