Quotes by Katherine Dunn (Ion Tanasa), page 2

Katherine Dunn (Ion Tanasa) - american Novelist

Also known as: Ion Tanasa.

Was born on 07 apr 1953.

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