It is coincidence, I decide, and I am getting old and batty, thinking the universe revolves around me. - Katherine Dunn - Quotesmemo.com

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"Oppression" or "systems of oppression" operate as a shorthand terms in much writing and speaking so that we do not have to list all these systems of meaning and control each time (i. e. racism, ableism, xenophobia, etc. ). I needed a term like that, but "oppression" implies a kind of top-down understanding of power that is at odds with the Foucaultian model I rely on in my work.

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Katherine Dunn

It is coincidence, I decide, and I am getting old and batty, thinking the universe revolves around me.

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My paintings are reflections of my own inner mysteries. . . they all reflect my relationship to my steadiest of companions and muses - nature and animals.

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But the idea that women can't take care of themselves still permeates our culture.

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And while national military forces have historically resisted the full participation of women soldiers, female talent has found plenty of scope in revolutionary and terrorist groups around the planet.

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In my next life, I plan to be a more respectable creature. For now, this is what is given to us. So I don't know - I think we're all freaks at heart. I think some people strive desperately to be normal, and I think other people strive to be abnormal.

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American culture is torn between our long romance with violence and our terror of the devastation wrought by war and crime and environmental havoc.

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Cherry-ripe, ripe, ripe, I cry, Full and fair ones; come and buy. If so be you ask me where They do grow, I answer: There, Where my Julia's lips do smile; There's the land, or cherry-isle, Whose plantations fully show All the year where cherries grow.

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I'm a realist. I like to put it in business terms. I ran three different corporations my way and I was successful. But I'm an older guy who is on his way out so they brought me in as a consultant for the new, up-and-coming CEO. I'm here for him.

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"Oppression" or "systems of oppression" operate as a shorthand terms in much writing and speaking so that we do not have to list all these systems of meaning and control each time (i. e. racism, ableism, xenophobia, etc. ). I needed a term like that, but "oppression" implies a kind of top-down understanding of power that is at odds with the Foucaultian model I rely on in my work.

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