Katherine Dunn Quotes

Bad behaviour makes men more glamorous. Women get destroyed, thrown out of society and locked up in institutions.

The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women.

While gossip among women is universally ridiculed as low and trivial, gossip among men, especially if it is about women, is called theory, or idea, or fact.

Often women are pitted against each other for an easy joke, so they fight or steal each other's boyfriends. That's not really true to life.

Aggressive female icons have been chronically demeaned... It's fine for male artists to be angry - they're encouraged to outwardly express their aggression - but women? I've been painted as an aggressive Feminazi because I'm blunt, stubborn, independent, forthright.

Would they call me a diva if I were a guy?

I've always been sure of my vision, but I've been in meetings where men have been talking about me like I'm not there... I've been told I should be a certain way, and I wondered if that would have been the case if I was a man.

One woman can be written off by a culture always looking to judge and blame women.

Women is fine once you got em pinned down, boss, but when they ain't pinned down they're hell.

At the end of the day, women are a distraction. Whether you realize it or not.

I'm sorry, but chick fights are sexy. If you don't think so, you're either an uptight woman or a lying man.

In this society, if a man is called a woman, that's the biggest insult he could get. Is that because women are considered something less?

Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?

I hate how box-office failures are blamed on an actress, yet I don't see a box-office failure blamed on men.

Some people think having large breasts makes a woman stupid. Actually, it's quite the opposite: a woman having large breasts makes men stupid.

If a woman goes out with different men on different days, women only will question her character and call her all sort of names.

I think women get labeled a lot as being crazy. But I think men make us crazy.

I think I am really irreverent and I pretty much just talk to and about men the way men talk to and about women.

As a woman, I know that if I write about another woman, it will be perceived as a catfight.

Feminine virtue is nothing but a convenient masculine invention.

The word 'excess' has no meaning for a male.

We live in a patriarchal culture. It's okay for women to be objectified but not for men.

Nothing's worse than a woman know-it-all.

I'm quite a chauvinistic person.

People think you can't be clever if you have breasts.