"I just met someone who read Gone With……" — 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."
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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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