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Defining men as the perpetrators of all violence is a viciously immoral judgment of an entire gender. And defining women as inherently nonviolent condemns us to the equally restrictive role of sweet, meek, and weak.
Katherine Dunn
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Katherine Dunn
Age: 70 †
Born: 1945
Born: October 24
Died: 2016
Died: May 11
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Only a lunatic would want to be president. These lunatics are created deliberately by those who wish to be presided over.
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They thought to use and shame me but I win out by nature, because a true freak cannot be made. A true freak must be born.
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Suddenly the staggering love bursts away from me like milk from a smashed glass.
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