Molly Crabapple famous quotes

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

But the thing about proving things? Your jaggedness just goads you on – it makes you sharper and harder. It gives you swagger.
-- Molly Crabapple

#Giving #Swagger #Harder

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

#Hurt #Moving #Rejection

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 #Way

Mainstream feminism might remember that the war on women always starts with the war on whores.
-- Molly Crabapple

#War #Feminism #Might

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

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

Neutrality and boredom are the weapons of the state.
-- Molly Crabapple

#Boredom #Neutrality #Weapons

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

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

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

#Artist #Blood #Hands

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

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

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

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

#Manipulation #Stills #Despite

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

I had difficulty being friends with women who hadn't worked in either the sex or beauty industries. I felt like other women sometimes overvalued beauty and sexuality, when in actuality, they're just parts of a job.
-- Molly Crabapple

#Jobs #Sex #Sometimes

Different types of sex work are differently supportive. If I were working in a strip club, I would be competing with my colleagues, and while there would be support, there would be financial motivation not to offer too much support.
-- Molly Crabapple

#Sex #Motivation #Support

I came in as an established artist. People were hiring me for what I did and for who I was. I think that has given me a vast amount of leeway; I feel so lucky that I came in that way.
-- Molly Crabapple

#Artist #Thinking #People

The occupation is really terrible on a variety of levels. It's terrible on the "shooting people and torturing people in prison" level. But I think the thing that is very hard to convey is that it's also this bureaucratic grinding-down and daily humiliation that I think would probably be as horrible as the spectacular violence.
-- Molly Crabapple

#Thinking #People #Down And

I've just found the stories of the people I'm talking to much more interesting than my reactions to them.
-- Molly Crabapple

#Talking #People #Interesting

You start like a white blanket and you have to preserve that, and each year that you live chips away at your essential value.
-- Molly Crabapple

#Years #White #Essentials

When virtue was spoken of in the classical sense, for men, it always meant bravery or protecting others or being an adventurer and going out into the world - whereas a woman's virtue meant keeping her legs closed.
-- Molly Crabapple

#Men #Bravery #Going Out

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

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

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

#Cutting #Thumbs