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"That's all true, but there was something else going on for me as a kid, something about my gender identity that I haven't figured out yet. And that's one of the things I'm hoping to dissect and investigate in this memoir project."
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"Some men are so indoctrinated that they sincerely believe that other than cooking and cleaning the only thing that a woman can do better than them is being a woman."
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"Women most often have a difficult enemy and she is a woman and not a man."
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"You see only the cat's paw, Signor Tartini, whereas I see the sharp claws hidden in that paw!.. Women are like fire; they warm you from afar, and when you enter into them they burn you to ashes!"
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"To a misogynist: To err is woman."
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"In the Bible, a woman was made from a man. In real life, a man is made from a woman."
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"Women are binding and men are commanding."
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"What is a strong woman? One whose very embrace can weaken the knees and soften the heart of the one she embraces, not by force, but by love which is the strongest force of all."
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"A man's shortcoming lies in the belief that he must always assert his manliness. A woman's shortcoming lies in the belief that she must always repress it."
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"Well, the lion is a big ol' coward, mostly. If you want trouble, you want to tangle with the lioness. They're killers, and they hunt together. It's the same everywhere. If you want big grief, look to the ladies."
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"Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft are written by men."
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"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 part of my brain that's been dormant until now."
Life

"Well, I'm always working on my comic strip and trying to, you know, keep cranking that out."
Trying

"I love Jules Feiffer. I didn't discover him until I was a little older."
Love

"But mostly, it's a book about my relationship with my father."
Father

"That's all true, but there was something else going on for me as a kid, something about my gender identity that I haven't figured out yet. And that's one of the things I'm hoping to dissect and investigate in this memoir project."
Gender

"For some reason writing and drawing are very separate processes for me."
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"When I grew up, I studied karate for years. I got pretty strong, but eventually I had to acknowledge that I really didn't like fighting at all, so I quit."
Fight

"Autobiographical comics, I love them. I love them."
Love

"The satiric ethos of Mad was a much bigger childhood influence."
Childhood

"My mother is, my father certainly was. They were kind of the local intelligentsia in the town where I grew up."
Mother
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