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- And partly, the worst thing you could do in my family was need something from someone. So physical strength represented an avenue of self-sufficiency to…
- Nancy Drew was always changing her outfits. I despised girls' clothing, I couldn't wait to get home from school and get out of it. The…
- My father once nearly came to blows with a female dinner guest about whether a particular patch of embroidery was fuchsia or magenta. But the…
- I'd been upstaged, demoted from protagonist in my own drama to comic relief in my parents' tragedy
- In a narcissistic cathexis, you invest more energy into your ideas about another person than in the actual, objective, external person. So the man who…
- I get a lot of mail from men who really identify with Stuart, you know, Sparrow's boyfriend. I love that. Even though I used to…
- Writing this book feels like a completely different activity from writing my comic strip because it's about real life. I feel like I'm using a…
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