Alison Bechdel Quotes About Fathers

Quotes about: Fathers

• If there was ever a bigger pansy than my father, it was Marcel Proust.

  Alison Bechdel

  Father, Proust, Bigger

  Alison Bechdel (2007). “Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic”, p.92, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• 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 infinite gradations of color in a fine sunset - from salmon to canary to midnight blue - left him wordless.

  Alison Bechdel

  Father, Sunset, Blow

• Although I am good at enumerating my father’s flaws, it’s hard for me to sustain much anger at him. I expect this is partly because he’s dead, and partly because the bar is lower for fathers than it is for mothers.

  Alison Bechdel

  Mother, Father, Bars

  Alison Bechdel (2007). “Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic”, p.25, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• I grew to resent the way my father treated his furniture like children, and his children like furniture.

  Alison Bechdel

  Children, Father, Way

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