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"Partly I resented being perceived as weak because I was a girl."
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"But, in fact, there is nothing that can bring you closer to fearlessness about everything else in the world than being a parent - because everyday fears - like not being approved of - pale by comparison to the fears you have about your children."
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"The fact that the Prophet cared for every human being and tried his best to ensure their security in the hereafter must be the most telling of his compassionate and merciful characteristics."
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"Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something."
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"You're better off being a brick layer if you're going to play guitar than a sheet metal worker."
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"I mean being a writer is like being a psychoanalyst, but you don't get any patients."
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"The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded."
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"Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained."
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"I'm sensitive about my image of being hard to reach."
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"Being "contented" ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position."
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"Being comfortable isn't the way to learn to expand your abilities."
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"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
"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."
Love
"Partly I resented being perceived as weak because I was a girl."
Being
"Autobiographical comics, I love them. I love them."
Love
"But mostly, it's a book about my relationship with my father."
Father
"I'm pretty illiterate when it comes to comics history."
History
"Mostly it was Mad magazine. And I did read a lot of - I had a subscription when I was little, but I also had access to some old collections, the little paperbacks of the really good stuff."
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