“Mo: I miss the good old days. Smash the family! Smash the state!
Sydney: What about Clarice and Toni and Raffi? D'you want to smash their family?
Mo: Please, Sydney. I'm expressing an ideological conviction, not talking about real people.”

—  Alison Bechdel , book Dykes to Watch Out For

#305, "The Baby Question" (1999), collected in Post-DTWOF (2000).
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