I love Jules Feiffer. I didn't discover him until I was a little older.

It was not a triumphal return. Home, as I had known it, was gone.

I don't know, maybe it's because I was raised Catholic. Confession has always held a great appeal for me.

I probably read Harriet the Spy about 70,000 times.

Even drawing gray hair at all is difficult to render in black and white.

Bechdel Test, was named for the comic strip it came from, penned by Alison Bechdel - but Bechdel credits a friend named Liz Wallace, so maybe it really should be called the Liz Wallace Test...? Anyway, the test is much simpler than the name. To pass it your movie must have the following: a) there are at least two named female characters, who b) talk to each other about c) something other than a man.

Nancy Drew was always changing her outfits. I despised girls' clothing, I couldn't wait to get home from school and get out of it. The last thing I wanted to read was minute descriptions of Nancy's frocks.