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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Alison Bechdel

“In this pause, I suddenly saw something very clearly. Whatever it was I wanted from my mother was simply not there to…

— Alison Bechdel

People really want to think that these things really happened. I don't know why that is important, but I know that when…

— Alison Bechdel

“It's said, after all, that people reach middle age the day they realize they're never going to read Remembrance of Things Past.”

— Alison Bechdel

I get a lot of mail from men who really identify with Stuart, you know, Sparrow's boyfriend. I love that. Even though…

— Alison Bechdel

I’m glad mainstream culture is starting to catch up to where lesbian-feminism was 30 years ago.

— Alison Bechdel

Grief takes many forms, including the absence of grief

— Alison Bechdel

Yeah, I read Judy Blume. My mother didn't like that, but I read it anyhow.

— Alison Bechdel

At first I was glad for the help. My freshmen English class, "Mythology and Archetypal Experience," confounded me. I didn't understand why…

— Alison Bechdel

I probably read Harriet the Spy about 70,000 times.

— Alison Bechdel

I just met someone who read Gone With the Wind 62 times for exactly that same reason. She couldn't bear that it…

— Alison Bechdel

My mother is, my father certainly was. They were kind of the local intelligentsia in the town where I grew up.

— Alison Bechdel

I still found literary criticism to be a suspect activity

— Alison Bechdel

“Your unconscious wants to express the pain you feel about your own lost innocence. But your ego wants to keep it repressed.…

— Alison Bechdel