Katherine Dunn Quotes

As women are empowered, violence can come down, for a number of reasons. By all measures, men are the more violent gender.

Women have got to make the world safe for men since men have made it so darned unsafe for women.

I was surrounded by strong women so it had never even occurred to me that women were anything other than equal to men.

I've never seen a world where only men were responsible for the violence, and the women were innocent. They go together. Men and women are a violent mixture.

It's just becoming more acceptable for girls to react violently.

For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.

I always tell the adults at my dance school, 'Men, you are going to have to do something that you are absolutely not used to: you have got to take command and be the boss.' Because - and this is just an observation - women get their way.

There is a sense that women are more anchored than men in our society.

If the world were a logical place, men would ride side saddle.

As a male writer, women are always what men pursue, and their world is always a mystery. So I always tried to present as many views as possible on women's worlds.

America is a land where men govern, but women rule.

Any woman who wishes to smash into the world of men isn't very feminine.

I would gladly admit women are superior to men if only they would stop trying to be the same as us.

I don't think there should be anything that women are embarrassed to talk about in the 21st century, because for the last 100,000 years, men have said everything that's on their minds and described everything they have done.

Until very recently men and women inhabited very separate spheres. There was always interconnection, passion, love. But men and women didn't hang out at the end of the day and chat about what their day was like at the office.

We don't have enough young, female antiheroes. We don't accept women as antiheroes the way we do the men.

There are relatively few role models for young people. We are in a society that is ruled by men.

I grew up in a world that told girls they couldn't play rock 'n' roll.

A woman can never be too rich or too thin, but until very, very recently, she could be too powerful, for which - if she wasn't smart enough to camouflage herself - she generally paid the price.

One of the few ways in which I feel I've actually matured is that as I've grown older I do find the concept of 'men' mystifying, whereas when I was a feisty young thing I was forever saying 'The most fun part of being a feminist is frightening men!'

We're comfortable with women in certain roles but not comfortable with women expressing anger or fully accepting their power. The most daring question a woman can ask is, 'What do I want?'

And then also I think it's harder for women because comedy is so opposite of being ladylike.

Men haven't changed their behaviour, so women somehow have to be strengthened to be able to ward off the men.

All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.

Men should stop treating feminists like ladies, and instead treat them like the men they say they want to be.