Molly Crabapple Quotes
You start like a white blanket and you have to preserve that, and each year that you live chips away at your essential value.
Crabapple, Molly. Drawing Blood. Harper, 2015, p. 26.
Emerson’s complaint could easily be mistaken for a 21st century complaint about the degeneration of the political dialogue of the era. In reality, the higher minded political discourse were the exceptions in American and world politics.
Molly Crabapple, born 1983 as Jennifer Caban, is an artist and writer living in New York. She is a contributing editor for VICE and has written for a variety of other outlets, as well publishing books including an illustrated memoir Drawing Blood (2015), Discordia (with Laurie Penny) on the Greek economic crisis, and the art books Devil in the Details and Week in Hell (2012). Her works are held in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, The Barjeel Art Foundation and the New-York Historical Society.