#w

Soon, I knew that I would become a chemist, rather than a composer. ↗

— Richard Ernst

#chemist #composer #i #knew #rather

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

#american culture #between #crime #culture #devastation

Asked why they wanted to fight, the young women said they enjoyed it, just as some men and boys do. ↗

— Katherine Dunn

#enjoyed #fight #just #men #said

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

— Katherine Dunn

#i #know #object #our generation #really

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

— Katherine Dunn

#back #come #go #go away #i

The intense campaigns against domestic violence, rape, sexual harassment, and inequity in the schools all too often depend on an image of women as weak and victimized. ↗

— Katherine Dunn

#campaigns #depend #domestic #harassment #image

Pretend to be dumb, that's the only way to reach old age. ↗

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

#dumb #old #old age #only #pretend

The second is the structure and source of cults. They have always haunted me, and I wanted to explore the fundamental notion of giving up responsibility to an outside power. ↗

— Katherine Dunn

#cults #explore #fundamental #giving #giving up

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

— Katherine Dunn

#female #limits #new #possibility #still

The gun issue is a big, unresolved issue in this country right now. I think it's out of control. ↗

— Nora Dunn

#control #country #gun #i #i think