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Katherine Dunn
1945 – 2016 • American • Novelist
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Showing 5 quotesIn the United States, female fisticuffs were marginalized, first as erotic vaudeville in the 19th century and later as serious competition developed in the first half of the 20th. Legal wars waged by boxers in the 1960s and '70s won women the right to compete professionally nationwide.— Katherine Dunn
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Legal
My background is standard American blue collar of the itchy-footed variety. We're new-world mongrels. The women in the family read horoscopes, tea leaves, coffee bubbles, Tarot cards and palms.— Katherine Dunn
American culture is torn between our long romance with violence and our terror of the devastation wrought by war and crime and environmental havoc.— Katherine Dunn
topics:
Environmental