50 Katherine Dunn Quotes for You to Enjoy

Katherine Dunn

American Novelist

Born: Oct 24, 1945

Died: May 11, 2016

Every Me People Think Women Writing

Related authors: Elie Wiesel Ernest Hemingway H. P. Lovecraft James Baldwin John Updike Leo Rosten Nathaniel Hawthorne Richard Bach

In boxing, they say it's the punch you don't see coming that knocks you out. In the wider world, the reality we ignore or deny is the one that weakens our most impassioned efforts toward improvement. 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

Women Depend Too Weak Sexual Schools Inequity Domestic Campaigns Intense Often Victimized Against Harassment Image Violence

People have been trying for centuries to manipulate genes, enhance certain traits, and achieve racial purity, even in humans. And of course I thought of the Nazis and their efforts toward Aryan magnificence. Katherine Dunn

People Achieve Thought Purity Magnificence Toward Genes Course Been Efforts Trying Traits Manipulate Centuries Racial Certain Even Enhance Humans

A film adaptation is, I hope, the director's version. A new creation. Katherine Dunn

Hope Director Creation New Version Film Adaptation

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

Me Responsibility Giving Giving Up Power Haunted Structure Outside Always Source Cults Up Wanted Explore Notion Fundamental Second

I come from a family of great readers and storytellers. Katherine Dunn

Great Family Come Readers Storytellers

Let's just say, the American school of suburban angst is not my cup of tea. Katherine Dunn

School Tea Say Angst Cup American Just Suburban

But I think everybody should write. I think those people with stories who don't write should be stomped on. Katherine Dunn

People Think Everybody Those Write Stories Should Who

I think that it's really important to go away and come back. Katherine Dunn

Important Go Away Think Back Come Go Really Away

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. Katherine Dunn

Politics Power Enough Also Course Although Access Far Publishing Interpersonal

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

Good Book Become Think Animation Very Movie

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. Katherine Dunn

Work You Director Book Own Think Though Launching Always His Very Acknowledge Happens Flattering Pad Uses

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

Women Men Aggressive Society Evidence More Potent Voluntary How Females Question Just Large Growing Eager Violence

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

Environmental War Culture Crime Long Our Torn Havoc Devastation Between Wrought Terror American American Culture Romance Violence

Training of female athletes is so new that the limits of female possibility are still unknown. Katherine Dunn

Training Unknown Possibility Athletes New Female Limits Still

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

Writing nonfiction of various kinds has been instructive and entertaining as well as paying the rent. Katherine Dunn

Writing Has-Been Entertaining Kinds Various Well Rent Nonfiction Been Paying

In the United States, female fisticuffs were marginalized, first as erotic vaudeville in the 19th century and later as serious competition developed in the first half of the 20th. Legal wars waged by boxers in the 1960s and '70s won women the right to compete professionally nationwide. Katherine Dunn

Legal Women Competition First Half Later States Vaudeville Developed Boxers Female Waged Were Won Nationwide Century Wars Serious Professionally United United States Right Compete Marginalized

Anthropologists believe women were among the skilled boxers of the ancient, sport-loving Minoan culture that flourished on Crete until 1100 B.C. The boxing booths at English fairs featured women in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Katherine Dunn

Culture Women Believe Ancient Booths Featured Until Boxers Boxing Were Centuries Skilled English Among Early

I was reading a lot of European history, and I thought Attila the Hun had gotten a bad rap. Katherine Dunn

History Thought Reading Rap Bad Bad Rap Had Gotten Lot European

The denial of female aggression is a destructive myth. It robs an entire gender of a significant spectrum of power, leaving women less than equal with men and effectively keeping them 'in their place' and under control. Katherine Dunn

Boxing gyms are more than training facilities. They are sanctuaries in bad neighborhoods for troubled kids and shrines to the traditions of the sport. The gym is home. For many, it's the safest place they know. Katherine Dunn

Home Training Neighborhoods Kids Bad Gym More Facilities Troubled Know Sport Safest Boxing Traditions Than Place Many

The metaphor of the subterranean is at work in a lot of Northwest writers and artists. Zooming in closer and closer and closer, then below, to the worms and the centipede. Katherine Dunn

Work Worms Writers Metaphor Lot Closer Northwest Artists Then Below

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