I grew to resent the way my father treated his furniture like children, and his children like furniture.

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.

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

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

You can't live and write at the same time.

It's our very capacity for self-consciousness that makes us self-destructive!

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