All Alison Bechdel Quotes
- Mostly it was Mad magazine. And I did read a lot of - I had a subscription when I was little, but I also had… Access
- Nancy Drew was always changing her outfits. I despised girls' clothing, I couldn't wait to get home from school and get out of it. The… Always Changing
- Partly I resented being perceived as weak because I was a girl. Girl
- Sometimes I wish the writing and drawing were more integrated. Drawing
- When I was growing up in the 1960s, there was starting to be more books geared towards young adults. Adult
- Yeah, I read Judy Blume. My mother didn't like that, but I read it anyhow. Blume
- People really want to think that these things really happened. I don't know why that is important, but I know that when I finish reading… Author
- It was not a triumphal return. Home, as I had known it, was gone. Gone
- My father once nearly came to blows with a female dinner guest about whether a particular patch of embroidery was fuchsia or magenta. But the… Blow
- I still found literary criticism to be a suspect activity Activity
- It was a vicious cycle, though. The more gratification we found in our own geniuses, the more isolated we grew. Cycle
- At first I was glad for the help. My freshmen English class, "Mythology and Archetypal Experience," confounded me. I didn't understand why we couldn't just… Archetypal
- 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. Cumulative
- What would happen if we spoke the truth? Funny
- She has given me a way out. Given
- If there was ever a bigger pansy than my father, it was Marcel Proust. Bigger
- I'd been upstaged, demoted from protagonist in my own drama to comic relief in my parents' tragedy Been
- Grief takes many forms, including the absence of grief Absence
- It's our very capacity for self-consciousness that makes us self-destructive! Capacity
- 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… Actual
- My mother is, my father certainly was. They were kind of the local intelligentsia in the town where I grew up. Father
- But mostly, it's a book about my relationship with my father. Book
- I get a lot of mail from men who really identify with Stuart, you know, Sparrow's boyfriend. I love that. Even though I used to… Any
- I hope that I can get people to read it without having to change it. Especially now that the strip has more different kinds of… All
- It's definitely part of it, that the men were having fun and doing the interesting things but also, I don't know, I'm just thinking more… Boy