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.

Yeah, I read Judy Blume. My mother didn't like that, but I read it anyhow.

Autobiographical comics, I love them. I love them.

If there was ever a bigger pansy than my father, it was Marcel Proust.

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

I try not to have anything too much going on between waking up and getting to work. I like to just be really fresh when I sit down. I always have my best ideas, like, within five minutes of starting. And then the rest of the day is just kind of putting in time.

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