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I'm like every waitress in every diner; I'm like every mom driving her kids to school. I'm nothing special at all.

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

Katherine Dunn

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.

Katherine Dunn

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

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

Katherine Dunn

Every doorway, every intersection has a story.

Katherine Dunn

I think genetic research is a fascinating and fertile area.

Katherine Dunn

Sometimes we followed the crops, doing migrant labor. We did several years of tenant farming in Western Oregon starting in the early '50s. Later, my stepdad managed gas stations in a small town near Portland.

Katherine Dunn

Women are real. Our reality covers the whole human megillah, from feeble to fierce, from bad to good, from endangered to dangerous. We don't just deserve power, we have it. And power in this and every other society is not just the capacity to benefit those around us.

Katherine Dunn

In a really good, closely matched situation, the style of the boxer is every bit as explicit and specific to him as a painter's hand.

Katherine Dunn

My lip curls in a snide reflex whenever I hear that a new novel is written from the point of view of a child or a monster, a lunatic or an animal. I immediately expect a nasty coyness of tone, cheesy artifice, the world through cardboard 3-D lenses.

Katherine Dunn

I know that some of the finest writing I've ever read has been sports writing, whatever the topic was, whatever the sport they were writing about. It seems to be an area where people are allowed a little more leeway than when they're reporting on traffic jams and city-council meetings.

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I'm just a regular Joe.

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I come from a family of great readers and storytellers.

Katherine Dunn

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.

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

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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.

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

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

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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.

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I know if I were in your generation I would be really tired of seeing Sophia Loren as a sex object.

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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.

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But the idea that women can't take care of themselves still permeates our culture.

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It is time to recognize the variability of females, just as we do males.

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

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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.

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

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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.

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I'm slow by everybody's standards. But not by mine.

Katherine Dunn

I think it is the natural and innate function of certain organisms to secrete beauty in permanent forms we call artworks, to respond to beauty by answering its discovery with a new beauty.

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But I went to high school in a Portland suburb and went to college here.

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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.

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Boxing is a formal, ritualized creation of crisis.

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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.

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My background is standard American blue collar of the itchy-footed variety. We're new-world mongrels. The women in the family read horoscopes, tea leaves, coffee bubbles, Tarot cards and palms.

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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.

Katherine Dunn

I thought that was actually kind of boring, that search for perfection.

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