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.

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.

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.

I think that it's really important to go away and come back.

I come from a family of great readers and storytellers.

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

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

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.

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

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