Quotes by Women Cartoonists

Alison Bechdel

Nina Paley

Cathy Guisewite

Lynda Barry

Roz Chast

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

I've found it's better to talk to the machine and hang up if I get the person.

Cathy Guisewite

The running shoe... could be called the Swiss Army knife of footwear... What appeal is there to a shoe whose only selling point is comfort?

The toughest question has always been, "How do you get your ideas?" How do you answer that? It's like asking runners how they run, or singers how they sing. They just do it!

Audiences want to support artists. Which is pretty much how it's always been except during the last 100 years where it's turned into this really vicious, cutthroat, nasty business with all these blood-thirsty, parasitic middle-men. But historically, artists were relatively poor and supported directly by their audiences. There's a great book called The Gift by Lewis Hyde. You know, art is a gift and it turns out the audience is happy to give back.

Most of us are animal lovers. We insist that we love all animals equally - the hamster, the weasel, and the zebra - but if pressed, we will admit to being either a cat person or a dog person.

Nicole Hollander

Always watch the hands. The hands will tell you everything you need to know.

A nursery rhyme from the American Psychiatric Society:
Monday's kid is passive-aggressive
Tuesday's kid is compulsive-obsessive
Wednesday's kid is hypochondriacal
Thursday's kid is just plain maniacal
Friday's kid is anal-retentive
Saturday's kid is too non-attentive
But the kid who's born on the Sabbath day
defies diagnosis in every way.

I could lose myself forever in that dark hair and those sweet love handles.