Maybe you shouldn't be working as a jailer in Guantรกnamo. Maybe that's why you feel spiritually unhealthy.
Molly CrabappleWorking a model liberated me from ever having to hold a day job. I transitioned from doing that to working full-time as an artist. If you're 19 and living cheap, being an artist model can sustain you. I dropped out of college at 21 and my illustration hadn't yet taken off. It is more than working in a store. It is a hard way to make a living but you earn more than in a similarly unskilled job.
Molly CrabappleIf 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.
Molly CrabappleRohini 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.
Molly CrabappleI absorbed the lie that any smart woman would use birth control and be responsible for her body. Obviously that's not true.
Molly CrabappleA womanโs beauty is supposed to be her grand project and constant insecurity. Weโre meant to shellac our lips with five different glosses, but always think weโre fat. Beauty is Zenoโs paradox. We should endlessly strive for it, but itโs not socially acceptable to admit weโre there. We canโt perceive it in ourselves. It belongs to the guy screaming 'nice tits.
Molly Crabapple