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
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
Asked why they wanted to fight, the young women said they enjoyed it, just as some men and boys do.
Katherine Dunn
But I think everybody should write. I think those people with stories who don't write should be stomped on.
Katherine Dunn
But I went to high school in a Portland suburb and went to college here.
Katherine Dunn
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
But the idea that women can't take care of themselves still permeates our culture.
Katherine Dunn
Every doorway, every intersection has a story.
Katherine Dunn
I come from a family of great readers and storytellers.
Katherine Dunn
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
I know if I were in your generation I would be really tired of seeing Sophia Loren as a sex object.
Katherine Dunn
I think genetic research is a fascinating and fertile area.
Katherine Dunn
I think that it's really important to go away and come back.
Katherine Dunn
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
Let's just say, the American school of suburban angst is not my cup of tea.
Katherine Dunn
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
Prior to penicillin and medical research, death was an everyday occurrence. It was intimate.
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.
Katherine Dunn
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
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
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