I hated being a child because to be a child means that you are essentially the property of your parents, benevolently or not.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.