"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."

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Katherine Dunn

#Men Quotes #Female Quotes #Growing Quotes

“I saw 'Paranormal Activity' on Halloween with all my friends. It scared me, but it was so much fun.”
“Wives, girlfriends, fiancees - clean out your closets. I'm cleaning out my old bell bottoms. We can touch millions.”
“I don't want to play the same person twice, that's not why I wanted to act.”
“I believe in poetry as a way of surviving the emotional chaos, spiritual confusions, and traumatic events that come with being alive.”

Source : "The Making of Poems" by Gregory Orr, www.npr.org. February 20, 2006.
“The self is only a threshold, a door, a becoming between two multiplicities”

Source : Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari (2004). “EPZ Thousand Plateaus”, p.275, A&C Black
“Short of preventing harm to the child, the standard of 'best interest of the child' is insufficient to serve as a compelling state interest overruling a parent's fundamental rights.... To suggest otherwise would be the logical equivalent to asserting that the state has the authority to break up stable families and redistribute its infant population to provide each child with the 'best family.' It is not within the province of the state to make significant decisions concerning the custody of children merely because it could make a 'better' decision.”
“everything is ambiguous. It's exciting, in a way, if you can tolerate ambiguity. I can't, but I'm taking a course where it's taught, in the hope of acquiring the skill. It's called Modern Living, and you get no credit.”

Source : Sheila Ballantyne (1975). “Norma Jean, the termite queen”, Doubleday Books
“If we truly trust no one, we cannot survive.”

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