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Women are looked at. But as an artist, I had permission to look back. Where the respectable avert their gaze, artists stare.

— Molly Crabapple Statement" in The Outlaw Bible of American Art (2016)

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I feel like political engagement is something that people, if they’re so inclined, all people should do...It’s not something that’s just for special, branded activists. It’s in part being a citizen.

interview with The Forward (2016)

Look at this vast, beautiful, crazy, fucked-up, gorgeous, horrifying world. How could you not be inspired by it?

interview with The Forward (2016)

Drawing is disruptive. You're producing when you're expected to consume.

Statement" in The Outlaw Bible of American Art (2016)

You take photos. Drawings you make. Cameras steal life force. Paintings, like The Picture of Dorian Gray, give you more.

Statement" in The Outlaw Bible of American Art (2016)

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There is a Lady sweet and kind,
Was never face so pleased my mind;
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And yet I love her till I die.

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To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman.

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We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men and women are created equal.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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