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• 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

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• I love Jules Feiffer. I didn't discover him until I was a little older.

  Alison Bechdel

  Littles

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• I wish I had a typical workday. I struggle to get up at seven and almost always fail. I just try to get to my office as soon as I can, but it's always later than I would like.

  Alison Bechdel

  Struggle, Office, Wish

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• 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 last thing I wanted to read was minute descriptions of Nancy's frocks.

  Alison Bechdel

  Girl, Home, School

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• Self-published media are really critical. It's so heartwarming that people are still doing it in this digital age. It's just really moving and exciting. You can't really replace a beautiful little mini-comic. It doesn't translate to the computer, you know? Handmade stuff has really given me hope for humanity.

  Alison Bechdel

  Beautiful, Moving, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Well, I'm always working on my comic strip and trying to, you know, keep cranking that out.

  Alison Bechdel

  Trying, Comic, Always Working

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• Even drawing gray hair at all is difficult to render in black and white.

  Alison Bechdel

  Black And White, Hair, Drawing

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• I just met someone who read Gone With the Wind 62 times for exactly that same reason. She couldn't bear that it wasn't real. She wanted to live in it.

  Alison Bechdel

  Real, Wind, Gone

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• You can't live and write at the same time.

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  Writing

  Alison Bechdel (2012). “Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama”, p.7, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• For some reason writing and drawing are very separate processes for me.

  Alison Bechdel

  Writing, Drawing, Reason

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• Bechdel Test, was named for the comic strip it came from, penned by Alison Bechdel - but Bechdel credits a friend named Liz Wallace, so maybe it really should be called the Liz Wallace Test...? Anyway, the test is much simpler than the name. To pass it your movie must have the following: a) there are at least two named female characters, who b) talk to each other about c) something other than a man.

  Alison Bechdel

  Character, Men, Names

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• The web is my unconscious but it's also a wish -- a fantasy of what my own creativity might look like if I weren't constantly impeding its flow.

  Alison Bechdel

  Creativity, Wish, Looks

  Alison Bechdel (2012). “Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama”, p.66, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

  Alison Bechdel

  Genius, Vicious, Found

  Alison Bechdel (2007). “Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic”, p.134, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It's a hard thing to age a character because you can't really suddenly give someone gray hair.

  Alison Bechdel

  Character, Hair, Giving

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• I tend to write first thing, and then do my drawing later. I like to draw at night. But often I go for long stretches without drawing, because I'm trying to figure out what I'm writing.

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  Writing, Night, Drawing

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• I try not to have anything too much going on between waking up and getting to work. I like to just be really fresh when I sit down. I always have my best ideas, like, within five minutes of starting. And then the rest of the day is just kind of putting in time.

  Alison Bechdel

  Ideas, Trying, Waking

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• I could not do what I do if I were not obsessive compulsive to a certain extent. I don't act clinically OCD. I'm not going to check things so many times I have to take drugs for it. But the kind of complicated and painstaking work I have to do to make my drawings, it just kind of harnesses that compulsive energy in a constructive way.

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  Drug, Energy, Kind

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I don't know how anyone gets anything done in New York City. I vastly prefer living in the country. I just need a lot of quiet and solitude, and I'm so easily distracted. I mean, the Internet is enough to deal with.

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  Country, New York, Mean

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• I do sometimes miss doing that lighter, more humorous work, and I find there's a heavier responsibility that goes along with a literary reputation. You have to start knowing what you're talking about and you have to go have public conversations with writers. That's been pretty intense; I have to really stay on top of things in a way I didn't before.

  Alison Bechdel

  Humorous, Responsibility, Talking

  Source: progressive.org

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• But I read comic books. I read things like Richie Rich and Little Lulu.

  Alison Bechdel

  Book, Littles, Rich

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• 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 to some old collections, the little paperbacks of the really good stuff.

  Alison Bechdel

  Mad, Magazines, Littles

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• I still found literary criticism to be a suspect activity

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  Criticism, Found, Stills

  Alison Bechdel (2007). “Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic”, p.202, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I never really read superhero stuff as a kid.

  Alison Bechdel

  Kids, Superhero, Stuff

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

  Alison Bechdel

  Spy

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• I started to get bored with that stuff about only drawing men and I've taken it out of the slideshow.

  Alison Bechdel

  Taken, Men, Drawing

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