Top 25 Quotes by 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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.