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.

I absorbed the lie that any smart woman would use birth control and be responsible for her body. Obviously that's not true.

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.

When you hold a graphic novel in your hands, you're holding artist blood made ink.

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

I had difficulty being friends with women who hadn't worked in either the sex or beauty industries. I felt like other women sometimes overvalued beauty and sexuality, when in actuality, they're just parts of a job.

I think treating a model as nothing but a collection of tendons is done to lessen people's discomfort with the fact that they are looking at a naked person. They think it makes the audience and model more comfortable. But that was not the case when I modeled and I find that others agree. I feel that the sexual component is essential. I feel it is much more objectifying to be a table than a beautiful naked girl.