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.Quote by Katherine Dunn about man
Prior to penicillin and medical research, death was an everyday occurrence. It was intimate.Quote by Katherine Dunn about research, death
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.Quote by Katherine Dunn about violence, sex
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.Quote by Katherine Dunn about violence, question, society, man
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.Quote by Katherine Dunn about power
This idea that males are physically aggressive and females are not has distinct drawbacks for both sexes.Quote by Katherine Dunn about idea
This is difficult because so many of us are convinced that women are incapable of aggression on the same scale as men - that women are physically too weak, or are inherently, biologically different in aggressive capacity, or are spiritually...Quote by Katherine Dunn about violence, man
Training of female athletes is so new that the limits of female possibility are still unknown.Quote by Katherine Dunn about limits
We have been permitted to turn our back on the frailty of life. I mean we live so much longer, and the constant presence of death is part of life.Quote by Katherine Dunn about life, death
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.Quote by Katherine Dunn about politics, power
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.Quote by Katherine Dunn about nature, being, people
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.Quote by Katherine Dunn about flattering, work
A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.Quote by Eugen Ionescu about adventure, art, magic, mind, work
Banality is a symptom of non-communication. Men hide behind their cliches.Quote by Eugen Ionescu about communication, man
Beauty is a precious trace that eternity causes to appear to us and that it takes away from us. A manifestation of eternity, and a sign of death as well.Quote by Eugen Ionescu about eternity, beauty, death
Everything that has been will be, everything that will be is, everything that will be has been.Quote by Eugen Ionescu
Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible.Quote by Eugen Ionescu