"In a narcissistic cathexis, you invest more energy……" — Alison Bechdel
"In a narcissistic cathexis, you invest more energy into your ideas about another person than in the actual, objective, external person. So the man who falls in love with beauty is quite different from the man who loves a girl and feels she is beautiful and can see what is beautiful about her."
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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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The fatigue produced on the muscles of the human frame does not altogether depend on the actual force employed in…
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The Canadian run can be no different, at least in terms of actual running.
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Fishing is boring, unless you catch an actual fish, and then it is disgusting.
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I do love to eavesdrop. It's inspirational, not only for subject matter but for actual dialogue, the way people talk.
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Percentage margins don't matter. What matters always is dollar margins: the actual dollar amount. Companies are valued not on their…
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It is evident that skepticism, while it makes no actual change in man, always makes him feel better.
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Sure, I suffered a lot. But it's not like the end of the world and it's not who I am.…
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I've thought for the last decade or so, the only actual place raw truth was seeping through in newspapers was…
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The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what…
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Congress acknowledged that society's accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease are as handicapping as are the physical limitations…
— William J. Brennan
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You don't want flame to hit your food. Flame is bad. Flame does nasty things to food. It makes soot…
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