"I suppose that a lifetime spent hiding one's……" — 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."
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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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Even the most wretched individual of our present society could not exist and develop without the cumulative social efforts of…
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It is the daily; it is the small; it is the cumulative injuries of little people that we are here…
— Learned Hand
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Lose/Win people bury a lot of feelings. And unexpressed feelings come forth later in uglier ways. Psychosomatic illnesses often are…
— Stephen Covey
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What would be the cumulative effect of millions of small, compassionate acts performed daily by us because of our heartfelt…
— M. Russell Ballard
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Any chemist reading this book can see, in some detail, how I have spent most of my mature life. They…
— Donald Cram
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Of course UFOs are real-and they are interplanetary.....The cumulative evidence for the existence of UFOs is quite overwhelming and I…
— Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding
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Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution;…
— John Ruskin
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Success action is cumulative in its results.
— Wallace D. Wattles
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And once we have given our community a good start,' I pointed out, ' the process will be cumulative. By…
— Plato
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All dancers have a cumulative tendency, because each beat of the tom-tom has an almost irresistible appeal. Soon, those who…
— Camara Laye
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The cumulative weight of all mortal sins--past, present, and future--pressed upon that perfect, sinless, and sensitive Soul! All our infirmities…
— Neal A. Maxwell
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Suddenly absurdism wasn’t an intellectual abstraction, it was actually realism. You could see the way that wealth was begetting wealth,…
— George Saunders
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