Being female was just one more way I felt different and weird. I was also a young 'un, and also my cartoons were not like typical 'New Yorker' cartoons. Roz Chast cartoonfeltfemale Change image and share on social
I love detail, like drawing what's on top of someone's coffee table. Maybe there's a little bowl of butterscotch candies on it, next to the four TV remotes. Roz Chast bowlbutterscotchcandy Change image and share on social
My parents scrimped and saved all their lives, to the point where my mother used a disgusting old oven mitt that was stained and partly patched together with a skirt I made in seventh grade. Roz Chast disgustgradelive Change image and share on social
I think, especially with my parents, I wanted to remember who they were. I wanted to remember all of it. I didn't want to purge myself of it. I wanted to remember it. Roz Chast parentpurgeremember Change image and share on social
I like being able to go grocery shopping and not feel that I'm fighting a thousand people. Roz Chast feelfightgrocery Change image and share on social
I think, with my cartoons, the parent-like figures are kind of my own archeypes of parents, and they're taken a little bit from my parents and other people's parents, and parents I have read about, and parents I dreamed about, and parents that I made up. Roz Chast archeypesbitecartoon share on social
There's something about most phobias where there's a tiny, tiny corner where you think this really actually could happen. Roz Chast cornerhappenphobia Change image and share on social
I always imagined my little cartoons on plates for some reason. Roz Chast cartoonimagineplate Change image and share on social
I don't put myself through that nauseating experience of looking at someone's face while they go through your stuff. Ugh! It's just horrible! It gives me the cringes to even think about it. Roz Chast cringeexperienceface Change image and share on social
One way of paying tribute to my parents was 'bearing witness' as the Quakers do - writing down everything that was happening instead of turning my back on it and pretending that it was all great. Roz Chast backbeargreat Change image and share on social
