My identity is linked to my grandmother, whos pure Filipino, as pure as you can probably get. And that shaped my imagination. So thats how I identify. – Jessica Hagedorn

We didnt have television until I was about eight years old, so it was either the movies or radio. A lot of radio drama. That was our television, you know. We had to use our imagination. So it was really those two things, and the comics, that I immersed myself in as a child. – Jessica Hagedorn