“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.” MenEvidenceCapacityBraveryBraveStrongestBroadsSelflessAggressionBrutal Author:Katherine Dunn
“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.” MenGrowingViolenceEvidenceFemaleAggressive Author:Katherine Dunn
“Beside Mama, in my own folding chair, with my feet sticking out in front of me, I thought about my own innards. Just a few months before I'd had no idea whether my reproductive equipment worked. There was no evidence. But that week I had become a full-fledged bleeder and was still absorbed by this first change in myself that I had ever noticed. The click and buzz of my synapses kept making the same connection. If you can change, you can also end. Death had always been a theory to me. Now I knew. The terror hurt good and I nursed it and played it like a loose tooth.” IfsFirstsStillsIdeasEndsHurtMy OwnWeekFeetFrontsTheoryMonthsEvidenceConnectionsTerrorTeethNo IdeaChairsNurseEquipmentMamaClicksBuzzFoldingSticking OutSynapses Author:Katherine Dunn
