"At first I was glad for the help.……" — Alison Bechdel
"At first I was glad for the help. My freshmen English class, "Mythology and Archetypal Experience," confounded me. I didn't understand why we couldn't just read books without forcing contorted interpretations on then"
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54 Quotes by Alison Bechdel
Alison Bechdel has 54 quotes on this site.
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It's a hard thing to age a character because you can't really suddenly give someone gray hair.
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If it weren't for the unconventionality of my desires, my mind might never have been forced to reckon with my…
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Was Daedalus really stricken with grief when Icarus fell into the sea? Or just disappointed by the design failure
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Although I am good at enumerating my father’s flaws, it’s hard for me to sustain much anger at him. I…
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You can't live and write at the same time.
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The secret subversive goal of my work is to show that women, not just lesbians, are regular human beings.
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It's imprecise and insufficient, defining the homosexual as a person whose gender expression is at odds with his or her…
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I’m glad mainstream culture is starting to catch up to where lesbian-feminism was 30 years ago.
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And partly, the worst thing you could do in my family was need something from someone. So physical strength represented…
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Well, I'm always working on my comic strip and trying to, you know, keep cranking that out.
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Watching everyone root through their psyche, it just delights me. Especially R. Crumb's stuff.
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The satiric ethos of Mad was a much bigger childhood influence.
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My dad's a very sensitive man, but as the archetypal rebellious teenager, I didn't realise that.
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And for me anyway, consciousness is three components: a personal component which for lack of a better word we can…
— Deepak Chopra
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Brian is an archetypal character, a bit like Don Juan, which is how I play him. He's a blast to…
— Gale Harold
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The 'squaring of the circle' is one of the many archetypal motifs which form the basic patterns of our dreams…
— Carl Jung
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Kafka's evocations are, rather, unconscious and almost sub-archetypal, the little-kid stuff from which myths derive; this is why we tend…
— David Foster Wallace
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She was the archetypal selfless mother: living only for her children, sheltering them from the consequences of their actions -…
— Marcia Muller
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When man faces man the one attempts to put the other to sleep and the other continuously wants to maintain…
— Rudolf Steiner
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I love talking about Kennedy assassination...a great archetypal example of how totalitarian government...sorry, wrong meeting.
— Bill Hicks
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As the Hindu gods are 'immortal' only in a very particular sense - for they had born and they die…
— Wendy Doniger
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I tend to fall for the archetypal, talented, charismatic rock boy.
— Juliana Hatfield
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The mandala is an archetypal image whose occurrence is attested throughout the ages. It signifies the wholeness of the self.…
— Carl Jung
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The reality, as I have come to understand it, is that the future is not fixed, and that therefore it…
— Steven Forrest
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