“There are parts of Texas where a fly lives ten thousand years and a man can't die soon enough. Time gets strange there from too much sky, too many miles from crack to crease in the flat surface of the land.” MenYearsEnoughDiesToo MuchSkyLandStrangeThousandTenSurfaceMilesFlatsCracksTexasThousand YearsEnough TimeSoon Enough Book:Geek Love: A Novel Source: Geek Love: A Novel
“There are parts of Texas where a fly lives 10,000 years and a man can't die soon enough.” MenYearsEnoughDiesTexasSoon Enough Author:Katherine Dunn
“Defining men as the perpetrators of all violence is a viciously immoral judgment of an entire gender. And defining women as inherently nonviolent condemns us to the equally restrictive role of sweet, meek, and weak.” MenRolesViolenceSweetJudgmentWeakFeministGenderImmoralDefiningMeekPerpetrators Author:Katherine Dunn
“Asked why they wanted to fight, the young women said they enjoyed it, just as some men and boys do.” MenSaidWantedYoungFightingBoysEnjoyedYoung WomenFirefighter Author:Katherine Dunn
“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
