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Watching everyone root through their psyche, it just delights me. Especially R. Crumb's stuff.
— Alison Bechdel
Feminism is the theory. Lesbianism is the practice.
— Alison Bechdel
If it weren't for the unconventionality of my desires, my mind might never have been forced to reckon with my body.
— Alison Bechdel
I never really read superhero stuff as a kid.
— Alison Bechdel
Whatever we say, we're always talking about ourselves.
— Alison Bechdel
It was a vicious cycle, though. The more gratification we found in our own geniuses, the more isolated we grew.
— Alison Bechdel
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
I do lend my books, but I have to be a bit selective because my marginalia are so incriminating. Alison Bechdel — Leah Price
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
It's a hard thing to age a character because you can't really suddenly give someone gray hair.
— Alison Bechdel
It was not a triumphal return. Home, as I had known it, was gone.
— Alison Bechdel
I still found literary criticism to be a suspect activity
— Alison Bechdel
Sometimes I wish the writing and drawing were more integrated.
— Alison Bechdel
The satiric ethos of Mad was a much bigger childhood influence.
— Alison Bechdel
I don't know, maybe it's because I was raised Catholic. Confession has always held a great appeal for me.
— Alison Bechdel
Again, the troubling gap between word and meaning. My feeble language skills could not bear the weight of such a laden experience.
— Alison Bechdel
The sudden approximation of my dull, provincial life to a New Yorker cartoon was exhilarating.
— Alison Bechdel
Who embalms the Undertaker when he dies?
— Alison Bechdel
It's imprecise and insufficient, defining the homosexual as a person whose gender expression is at odds with his or her sex.
— Alison Bechdel
I probably read Harriet the Spy about 70,000 times.
— Alison Bechdel
Well, I'm always working on my comic strip and trying to, you know, keep cranking that out.
— Alison Bechdel
I grew to resent the way my father treated his furniture like children, and his children like furniture.
— Alison Bechdel
I'm glad mainstream culture is starting to catch up to where lesbian-feminism was 30 years ago.
— Alison Bechdel
I just have this sort of entrepreneurial spirit and I work really hard at promoting myself.
— Alison Bechdel
Autobiographical comics, I love them. I love them.
— Alison Bechdel
You can't live and write at the same time.
— Alison Bechdel
The secret subversive goal of my work is to show that women, not just lesbians, are regular human beings.
— Alison Bechdel
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
She has given me a way out.
— Alison Bechdel
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
My research was stimulating but solitary
— Alison Bechdel
My mother is, my father certainly was. They were kind of the local intelligentsia in the town where I grew up.
— Alison Bechdel
When I was growing up in the 1960s, there was starting to be more books geared towards young adults.
— Alison Bechdel
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
The idea that our unconscious possesses such sure aim excited me. I became more attuned to my own erroneously carried out actions.
— Alison Bechdel
I'd been upstaged, demoted from protagonist in my own drama to comic relief in my parents' tragedy
— Alison Bechdel
I started to get bored with that stuff about only drawing men and I've taken it out of the slideshow.
— Alison Bechdel
Partly I resented being perceived as weak because I was a girl.
— Alison Bechdel
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
What would happen if we spoke the truth?
— Alison Bechdel
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
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
Mom, how come you never go outside?""I told you, I'm a vampire. — Alison Bechdel
I'm pretty illiterate when it comes to comics history.
— Alison Bechdel
Grief takes many forms, including the absence of grief.
— Alison Bechdel