"Partly I resented being perceived as weak because……" — Alison Bechdel

"Partly I resented being perceived as weak because I was a girl."

— Alison Bechdel

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54 Quotes by Alison Bechdel

Alison Bechdel has 54 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

It's a hard thing to age a character because you can't really suddenly give someone gray hair.
If it weren't for the unconventionality of my desires, my mind might never have been forced to reckon with my…
Was Daedalus really stricken with grief when Icarus fell into the sea? Or just disappointed by the design failure
Although I am good at enumerating my father’s flaws, it’s hard for me to sustain much anger at him. I…
You can't live and write at the same time.
The secret subversive goal of my work is to show that women, not just lesbians, are regular human beings.
It's imprecise and insufficient, defining the homosexual as a person whose gender expression is at odds with his or her…
I’m glad mainstream culture is starting to catch up to where lesbian-feminism was 30 years ago.
And partly, the worst thing you could do in my family was need something from someone. So physical strength represented…
Well, I'm always working on my comic strip and trying to, you know, keep cranking that out.
Watching everyone root through their psyche, it just delights me. Especially R. Crumb's stuff.
The satiric ethos of Mad was a much bigger childhood influence.

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Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse. — Hannah Arendt
Even in New York, there are a lot of very attractive girls pedaling around. That just happens to be one… — Paul Auster
Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized. — Margaret Atwood
Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the… — Jane Austen
Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct… — Jane Austen
Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then. — Jane Austen
To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the… — Jane Austen
Where youth and diffidence are united, it requires uncommon steadiness of reason to resist the attraction of being called the… — Jane Austen
I was in preschool and a girl actually kissed me on the cheek. I didn't know what to do. I… — Jensen Ackles
I get nervous around girls for the first time. Once I'm in, I can take the reins and go. It's… — Jensen Ackles
I love the smell of shampoo on a girl's hair. You can walk past someone and be like, 'Wow, you… — Jensen Ackles
I'm into a casual-dressing girl: blue jeans and a tank top is super sexy. But the sexiest thing on a… — Jensen Ackles

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