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• It's a hard thing to age a character because you can't really suddenly give someone gray hair.
• If it weren't for the unconventionality of my desires, my mind might never have been forced to reckon with my body.
• Was Daedalus really stricken with grief when Icarus fell into the sea? Or just disappointed by the design failure
• Although I am good at enumerating my father’s flaws, it’s hard for me to sustain much anger at him. I expect this…
• You can't live and write at the same time.
• The secret subversive goal of my work is to show that women, not just lesbians, are regular human beings.
• It's imprecise and insufficient, defining the homosexual as a person whose gender expression is at odds with his or her sex.
• I’m glad mainstream culture is starting to catch up to where lesbian-feminism was 30 years ago.
• And partly, the worst thing you could do in my family was need something from someone. So physical strength represented an avenue…
• Well, I'm always working on my comic strip and trying to, you know, keep cranking that out.
• Watching everyone root through their psyche, it just delights me. Especially R. Crumb's stuff.
• The satiric ethos of Mad was a much bigger childhood influence.

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