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> [The secret subversive goal of my work is to show that women, not just lesbians, are regular human beings.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alison-bechdel/the-secret-subversive-goal-of-my-work-is-to-show-that-women-not-just/)

[Alison Bechdel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alison-bechdel/)

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> [I hope that I can get people to read it without having to change it. Especially now that the strip has more different kinds of characters. It's really not all lesbians any more.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alison-bechdel/i-hope-that-i-can-get-people-to-read-it-without-having-to-change-it/)

[Alison Bechdel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alison-bechdel/)

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## Other authors on Lesbians

- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b001/author-abhijit-naskar-99.jpg) Abhijit Naskar 7 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/lesbians/abhijit-naskar/)

## More by Alison Bechdel

> [Watching everyone root through their psyche, it just delights me. Especially R. Crumb's stuff.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alison-bechdel/watching-everyone-root-through-their-psyche-it-just-delights-me/)

[Alison Bechdel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alison-bechdel/)

> [It's imprecise and insufficient, defining the homosexual as a person whose gender expression is at odds with his or her sex.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alison-bechdel/it-s-imprecise-and-insufficient-defining-the-homosexual-as-a-person/)

[Alison Bechdel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alison-bechdel/)

> [The writing is hard, and the drawing is fun. It's very satisfying to see a drawing start to come together.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alison-bechdel/the-writing-is-hard-and-the-drawing-is-fun-it-s-very-satisfying-to/)

[Alison Bechdel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alison-bechdel/)

> [Sometimes I wish the writing and drawing were more integrated.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alison-bechdel/sometimes-i-wish-the-writing-and-drawing-were-more-integrated/)

[Alison Bechdel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alison-bechdel/)

> [“My homosexuality remained at that point purely theoretical, an untested hypothesis. But it was a hypothesise so thorough and so convincing I saw no…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alison-bechdel/my-homosexuality-remained-at-that-point-purely-theoretical-an/)

[Alison Bechdel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alison-bechdel/)

> [Autobiographical comics, I love them. I love them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alison-bechdel/autobiographical-comics-i-love-them-i-love-them/)

[Alison Bechdel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alison-bechdel/)

> [Partly I resented being perceived as weak because I was a girl.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alison-bechdel/partly-i-resented-being-perceived-as-weak-because-i-was-a-girl/)

[Alison Bechdel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alison-bechdel/)

> [“I put the odds on a psychic deathmatch between Attila the Hun and Virginia Woolf at fifty-fifty.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alison-bechdel/i-put-the-odds-on-a-psychic-deathmatch-between-attila-the-hun-and/)

[Alison Bechdel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alison-bechdel/)

> [Basically, my work is play. It never actually feels that way - I'm always aiming to attain that state. But I get to do…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alison-bechdel/basically-my-work-is-play-it-never-actually-feels-that-way-i-m-always/)

[Alison Bechdel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alison-bechdel/)

> [What would happen if we spoke the truth?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alison-bechdel/what-would-happen-if-we-spoke-the-truth/)

[Alison Bechdel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alison-bechdel/)

> [It was a vicious cycle, though. The more gratification we found in our own geniuses, the more isolated we grew.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alison-bechdel/it-was-a-vicious-cycle-though-the-more-gratification-we-found-in-our/)

[Alison Bechdel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alison-bechdel/then-there-were-those-famous-wings-was-daedalus-really-stricken-with/)

[Alison Bechdel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alison-bechdel/)

> [“In this pause, I suddenly saw something very clearly. Whatever it was I wanted from my mother was simply not there to be had.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alison-bechdel/in-this-pause-i-suddenly-saw-something-very-clearly-whatever-it-was-i/)

[Alison Bechdel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alison-bechdel/)

> [People really want to think that these things really happened. I don't know why that is important, but I know that when I finish…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alison-bechdel/people-really-want-to-think-that-these-things-really-happened-i-don-t/)

[Alison Bechdel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alison-bechdel/it-s-said-after-all-that-people-reach-middle-age-the-day-they-realize/)

[Alison Bechdel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alison-bechdel/)

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