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"My mother is, my father certainly was. They were kind of the local intelligentsia in the town where I grew up."
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"People who lost their mother should be careful about committing crime, because probably no one else is praying to save you."
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"My mother wanted me to be a concert pianist."
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"I know Mother named me after a railroad man, but it's too late now, I'm afraid. Much, much too late."
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"I think what I came through is great, but my son can take it to another level, not having to fight racism. His mother's a Norwegian and I'm mixed up four or five times, so he can face the world."
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"And getting older, what's happening is, I play only mothers."
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"The doctor's name was Sylvia. I told her she'd have a problem with me because Sylvia was my mother's name."
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"A mother is the most important blessing of your life."
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"There's no doubt that becoming a mother was the greatest thing I'll ever do."
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"I loved my mother, she's a good girl."
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"Both my parents were doctors, and my mother had her surgery in the house. There were six children."
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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."
Gender
"I don't know, maybe it's because I was raised Catholic. Confession has always held a great appeal for me."
Confession
"Sometimes I wish the writing and drawing were more integrated."
Writing
"When I was growing up in the 1960s, there was starting to be more books geared towards young adults."
Books
"I just met someone who read Gone With the Wind 62 times for exactly that same reason. She couldn't bear that it wasn't real. She wanted to live in it."
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"But I read comic books. I read things like Richie Rich and Little Lulu."
Books
"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
"One of them is already having some menopausal symptoms. I'm working on that. I'm giving them all little lines under the eyes, trying to sort of make them age gracefully."
Age
"The satiric ethos of Mad was a much bigger childhood influence."
Childhood
"I love Jules Feiffer. I didn't discover him until I was a little older."
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