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Alison Bechdel quotes: It's our very capacity for self-consciousness that makes us self-destructive!

It's our very capacity for self-consciousness that makes us self-destructive!

Alison Bechdel quotes: Watching everyone root through their psyche, it just delights me. Especially R. Crumb's stuff.

Watching everyone root through their psyche, it just delights me. Especially R. Crumb's stuff.

Alison Bechdel quotes: Feminism is the theory. Lesbianism is the practice.

Feminism is the theory. Lesbianism is the practice.

Alison Bechdel quotes: If it weren't for the unconventionality of my desires, my mind might never have been forced to reckon with my body.

If it weren't for the unconventionality of my desires, my mind might never have been forced to reckon with my body.

Alison Bechdel quotes: I never really read superhero stuff as a kid.

I never really read superhero stuff as a kid.

Alison Bechdel quotes: Whatever we say, we're always talking about ourselves.

Whatever we say, we're always talking about ourselves.

Alison Bechdel quotes: It was a vicious cycle, though. The more gratification we found in our own geniuses, the more isolated we grew.

It was a vicious cycle, though. The more gratification we found in our own geniuses, the more isolated we grew.

Alison Bechdel quotes: Don't you kids get any ideas about dragging a trailer into the backyard. after you graduate from high school, i don't want to see you again.

Don't you kids get any ideas about dragging a trailer into the backyard. after you graduate from high school, i don't want to see you again.

Alison Bechdel quotes: It was not a triumphal return. Home, as I had known it, was gone.

It was not a triumphal return. Home, as I had known it, was gone.

Alison Bechdel quotes: The web is my unconscious but it's also a wish a fantasy of what my own creativity might look like if I weren't constantly impeding its flow.

The web is my unconscious but it's also a wish
a fantasy of what my own creativity might look like if I weren't constantly impeding its flow.

Alison Bechdel quotes: It's a hard thing to age a character because you can't really suddenly give someone gray hair.

It's a hard thing to age a character because you can't really suddenly give someone gray hair.

Alison Bechdel quotes: Psychoanalytic insight, Miller seems to suggest, is itself a pathological symptom.

Psychoanalytic insight, Miller seems to suggest, is itself a pathological symptom.

Alison Bechdel quotes: I still found literary criticism to be a suspect activity

I still found literary criticism to be a suspect activity

Alison Bechdel quotes: For some reason writing and drawing are very separate processes for me.

For some reason writing and drawing are very separate processes for me.

Alison Bechdel quotes: Sometimes I wish the writing and drawing were more integrated.

Sometimes I wish the writing and drawing were more integrated.

Alison Bechdel quotes: The satiric ethos of Mad was a much bigger childhood influence.

The satiric ethos of Mad was a much bigger childhood influence.

Alison Bechdel quotes: I don't know, maybe it's because I was raised Catholic. Confession has always held a great appeal for me.

I don't know, maybe it's because I was raised Catholic. Confession has always held a great appeal for me.

Alison Bechdel quotes: Again, the troubling gap between word and meaning. My feeble language skills could not bear the weight of such a laden experience.

Again, the troubling gap between word and meaning. My feeble language skills could not bear the weight of such a laden experience.

Alison Bechdel quotes: I'm pretty illiterate when it comes to comics history.

I'm pretty illiterate when it comes to comics history.

Alison Bechdel quotes: Who embalms the Undertaker when he dies?

Who embalms the Undertaker when he dies?

Alison Bechdel quotes: It's imprecise and insufficient, defining the homosexual as a person whose gender expression is at odds with his or her sex.

It's imprecise and insufficient, defining the homosexual as a person whose gender expression is at odds with his or her sex.

Alison Bechdel quotes: I probably read Harriet the Spy about 70,000 times.

I probably read Harriet the Spy about 70,000 times.

Alison Bechdel quotes: Even drawing gray hair at all is difficult to render in black and white.

Even drawing gray hair at all is difficult to render in black and white.

Alison Bechdel quotes: Well, I'm always working on my comic strip and trying to, you know, keep cranking that out.

Well, I'm always working on my comic strip and trying to, you know, keep cranking that out.

Alison Bechdel quotes: I grew to resent the way my father treated his furniture like children, and his children like furniture.

I grew to resent the way my father treated his furniture like children, and his children like furniture.

Alison Bechdel quotes: I'm glad mainstream culture is starting to catch up to where lesbian-feminism was 30 years ago.

I'm glad mainstream culture is starting to catch up to where lesbian-feminism was 30 years ago.

Alison Bechdel quotes: If there was ever a bigger pansy than my father, it was Marcel Proust.

If there was ever a bigger pansy than my father, it was Marcel Proust.

Alison Bechdel quotes: I just have this sort of entrepreneurial spirit and I work really hard at promoting myself.

I just have this sort of entrepreneurial spirit and I work really hard at promoting myself.

Alison Bechdel quotes: Autobiographical comics, I love them. I love them.

Autobiographical comics, I love them. I love them.

Alison Bechdel quotes: You can't live and write at the same time.

You can't live and write at the same time.

Alison Bechdel quotes: The secret subversive goal of my work is to show that women, not just lesbians, are regular human beings.

The secret subversive goal of my work is to show that women, not just lesbians, are regular human beings.

Alison Bechdel quotes: I just met someone who read Gone With the Wind 62 times for exactly that same reason. She couldn't bear that it wasn't real. She wanted to live in it.

I just met someone who read Gone With the Wind 62 times for exactly that same reason. She couldn't bear that it wasn't real. She wanted to live in it.

Alison Bechdel quotes: She has given me a way out.

She has given me a way out.

Alison Bechdel quotes: On our second date, she kissed me in a bar. I invited her home. We just caught the F train, which seemed like a good omen.

On our second date, she kissed me in a bar. I invited her home. We just caught the F train, which seemed like a good omen.

Alison Bechdel quotes: My research was stimulating but solitary

My research was stimulating but solitary

Alison Bechdel quotes: My mother is, my father certainly was. They were kind of the local intelligentsia in the town where I grew up.

My mother is, my father certainly was. They were kind of the local intelligentsia in the town where I grew up.

Alison Bechdel quotes: When I was growing up in the 1960s, there was starting to be more books geared towards young adults.

When I was growing up in the 1960s, there was starting to be more books geared towards young adults.

Alison Bechdel quotes: Then there were those famous wings. Was Daedalus really stricken with grief when Icarus fell into the sea? Or just disappointed by the design failure?

Then there were those famous wings. Was Daedalus really stricken with grief when Icarus fell into the sea? Or just disappointed by the design failure?

Alison Bechdel quotes: Yeah, I read Judy Blume. My mother didn't like that, but I read it anyhow.

Yeah, I read Judy Blume. My mother didn't like that, but I read it anyhow.

Alison Bechdel quotes: The idea that our unconscious possesses such sure aim excited me. I became more attuned to my own erroneously carried out actions.

The idea that our unconscious possesses such sure aim excited me. I became more attuned to my own erroneously carried out actions.

Alison Bechdel quotes: I'd been upstaged, demoted from protagonist in my own drama to comic relief in my parents' tragedy

I'd been upstaged, demoted from protagonist in my own drama to comic relief in my parents' tragedy

Alison Bechdel quotes: I started to get bored with that stuff about only drawing men and I've taken it out of the slideshow.

I started to get bored with that stuff about only drawing men and I've taken it out of the slideshow.

Alison Bechdel quotes: Partly I resented being perceived as weak because I was a girl.

Partly I resented being perceived as weak because I was a girl.

Alison Bechdel quotes: I love Jules Feiffer. I didn't discover him until I was a little older.

I love Jules Feiffer. I didn't discover him until I was a little older.

Alison Bechdel quotes: I suppose that a lifetime spent hiding one's erotic truth could have a cumulative renunciatory effect. Sexual shame is in itself a kind of death.

I suppose that a lifetime spent hiding one's erotic truth could have a cumulative renunciatory effect. Sexual shame is in itself a kind of death.

Alison Bechdel quotes: What would happen if we spoke the truth?

What would happen if we spoke the truth?

Alison Bechdel quotes: It's said, after all, that people reach middle age the day they realize they're never going to read Remembrance of Things Past.

It's said, after all, that people reach middle age the day they realize they're never going to read Remembrance of Things Past.

Alison Bechdel quotes: But I read comic books. I read things like Richie Rich and Little Lulu.

But I read comic books. I read things like Richie Rich and Little Lulu.

Alison Bechdel quotes: I have never read Sylvia Plath. My mother has never read Virginia Woolf. In general, we have stayed out of one another's way like this.

I have never read Sylvia Plath. My mother has never read Virginia Woolf. In general, we have stayed out of one another's way like this.

Alison Bechdel quotes: The sudden approximation of my dull, provincial life to a New Yorker cartoon was exhilarating.

The sudden approximation of my dull, provincial life to a New Yorker cartoon was exhilarating.

Alison Bechdel quotes: Mom, how come you never go outside?""I told you, I'm a vampire.

Mom, how come you never go outside?"
"I told you, I'm a vampire.

Alison Bechdel quotes: Grief takes many forms, including the absence of grief.

Grief takes many forms, including the absence of grief.