I'd been upstaged, demoted from protagonist in my own drama to comic relief in my parents' tragedy

Partly I resented being perceived as weak because I was a girl.

The web is my unconscious but it's also a wish -- a fantasy of what my own creativity might look like if I weren't constantly impeding its flow.

Was Daedalus really stricken with grief when Icarus fell into the sea? Or just disappointed by the design failure

In a narcissistic cathexis, you invest more energy into your ideas about another person than in the actual, objective, external person. So the man who falls in love with beauty is quite different from the man who loves a girl and feels she is beautiful and can see what is beautiful about her.

I'm pretty illiterate when it comes to comics history.

The secret subversive goal of my work is to show that women, not just lesbians, are regular human beings.