A Quote by Katherine Dunn

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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Defining Entire Equally Gender Immoral Inherently Judgment Meek Men Moral Judgment Nonviolent Perpetrators Role Sweet Us Violence Weak Women

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Katherine Dunn
American - Novelist
October 24, 1945 - May 11, 2016

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