Molly Crabapple Quotes

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• If there's a theme in my work, it's that I like to focus on smart people who are facing oppression and who are fighting back against it.

  Molly Crabapple

  Smart, Fighting, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• You can't use a drawing to prove a war crime. A drawing doesn't have that notion that it's proof of a reality. Because of that, you can do all sorts of interesting things in it.

  Molly Crabapple

  War, Reality, Drawing

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• When I started my own business, I funded it as a naked model. I still think that the sex industry can, for some men and women, be a powerful tool for improving their financial prospects.

  Molly Crabapple

  Sex, Powerful, Men

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Rejection is inevitable. Let it hit you hard for a moment, feel the hurt, and then move on.

  Molly Crabapple

  Hurt, Moving, Rejection

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• I can't reasonably pretend to be a transparent and omniscient narrator who brings no personal perspective. That person doesn't exist.

  Molly Crabapple

  Perspective, Narrators, Persons

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Neutrality and boredom are the weapons of the state.

  Molly Crabapple

  Boredom, Neutrality, Weapons

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The thing that I hate is that Nicholas Kristof style of writing where it's like, "I saw the poor, they made me so sad. What can I do about sadness? I am so brave." It's just like, shut up, man, shut up.

  Molly Crabapple

  Hate, Sadness, Writing

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• When you hold a graphic novel in your hands, you're holding artist blood made ink.

  Molly Crabapple

  Artist, Blood, Hands

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I feel like the traditional patron system meant that you would kiss the ass of one rich person and then hide all of the financial goings-on of your work, and you could pretend you were pure.

  Molly Crabapple

  Kissing, Financial, Rich

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Art is for the elite because it has a very high price-point of entry. And when one is in that social strata, they look down at illustrators because they just draw things directly for a few hundred dollars and that's seen as being a bit grubby. Galleries allow artists to stay relatively divorced from the financial aspects of their trade. I am lucky because I do fine art, and that is half of my living. And then illustration provides the other half.

  Molly Crabapple

  Art, Lucky, Financial

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The thing is, Guantánamo is also a naval base, and they're under the delusion - especially the people on the naval side who are not dealing with the prison - that they can just pretend this is an ordinary Caribbean naval base. For them, it's: "Why are you making such a big deal out of the most notorious prison in the world?" It's like if people living near Buchenwald said they wanted to talk about the other lovely things in the region besides the camp.

  Molly Crabapple

  People, Lovely, Buchenwald

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Despite everything we know about photo manipulation, a photo is still considered an objective document.

  Molly Crabapple

  Manipulation, Stills, Despite

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• A woman’s beauty is supposed to be her grand project and constant insecurity. We’re meant to shellac our lips with five different glosses, but always think we’re fat. Beauty is Zeno’s paradox. We should endlessly strive for it, but it’s not socially acceptable to admit we’re there. We can’t perceive it in ourselves. It belongs to the guy screaming 'nice tits.

  Molly Crabapple

  Nice, Thinking, Guy

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• Rohini Mohan read. While she did, I sketched her. She writes with such beauty and violence, and it seemed like the best way to listen was to really watch her, in the way that only drawing someone lets me do.

  Molly Crabapple

  Writing, Drawing, Watches

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• Mainstream feminism might remember that the war on women always starts with the war on whores.

  Molly Crabapple

  War, Feminism, Might

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• Maybe you shouldn't be working as a jailer in Guantánamo. Maybe that's why you feel spiritually unhealthy.

  Molly Crabapple

  Unhealthy, Feels, Jailer

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I absorbed the lie that any smart woman would use birth control and be responsible for her body. Obviously that's not true.

  Molly Crabapple

  Lying, Smart, Birth Control

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I love comics, but I'd rather cut off my thumbs than do nothing but.

  Molly Crabapple

  Cutting, Thumbs

  Source: therumpus.net

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• New York makes me swoony and in love. The New York of the 1880s was a place where black eye fixers did a brisk business and people were routinely killed for their shoes. But, the constant aspiration of the city never changes.

  Molly Crabapple

  New York, Eye, Cities

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The main difference between illustration and comics is that comics are much, much more work. Every comics page is the equivalent of six to nine illustrations.

  Molly Crabapple

  Illustration, Differences, Pages

  Source: therumpus.net

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• One thing about Guantánamo, beyond anything else, is the commitment against all odds to allow Americans to view themselves as the good guy, no matter what the situation is.

  Molly Crabapple

  Commitment, Odds, Views

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The truth is, the vast majority of medical care for lower income people in America is shitty. If you go to a free clinic to receive any form of care, the majority of those will be overcrowded with nurses who are tired because they have to work with so many people. We are not a country that invests public money into taking care of poor people, so we usually rely on clinics with very overburdened and underpaid staff.

  Molly Crabapple

  Country, Tired, America

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I didn't want to be beholden to one person. So I did something where I had hundreds of people who backed the work. I could just do work, and since a lot of people were interested in it, I wasn't beholden to any particular one of them.

  Molly Crabapple

  People, Want, Persons

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I hated being a child because to be a child means that you are essentially the property of your parents, benevolently or not.

  Molly Crabapple

  Children, Mean, Parent

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Innocence is always the state of being untouched. Sometimes it's synonymous with virginity, so sometimes it's quite literal, but sometimes it's more of a mental state of being untouched, of not having seen a lot of the world.

  Molly Crabapple

  World, Innocence, Sometimes

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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