Comic Quote by Alison Bechdel

Watching everyone root through their psyche, it just delights me. Especially R. Crumb's stuff.

— Alison Bechdel

It's imprecise and insufficient, defining the homosexual as a person whose gender expression is at odds with his or her sex.

— Alison Bechdel

The writing is hard, and the drawing is fun. It's very satisfying to see a drawing start to come together.

— Alison Bechdel

Sometimes I wish the writing and drawing were more integrated.

— Alison Bechdel

“My homosexuality remained at that point purely theoretical, an untested hypothesis. But it was a hypothesise so thorough and so convincing I saw no…

— Alison Bechdel

Autobiographical comics, I love them. I love them.

— Alison Bechdel

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

— Alison Bechdel

“I put the odds on a psychic deathmatch between Attila the Hun and Virginia Woolf at fifty-fifty.”

— Alison Bechdel

Basically, my work is play. It never actually feels that way - I'm always aiming to attain that state. But I get to do…

— Alison Bechdel

What would happen if we spoke the truth?

— Alison Bechdel

It was a vicious cycle, though. The more gratification we found in our own geniuses, the more isolated we grew.

— Alison Bechdel

“Then there were those famous wings. Was Daedalus really stricken with grief when Icarus fell into the sea? Or just disappointed by the design…

— Alison Bechdel