Quotes by Katherine Dunn (Ion Tanasa) about Violence

Katherine Dunn (Ion Tanasa) American Novelist

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

Quote by Katherine Dunn about violence

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.

Quote by Katherine Dunn about violence

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

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

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