Alison Bechdel Quotes

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• 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.

  Alison Bechdel

  Erotic, Kind, Shame

  Alison Bechdel (2007). “Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic”, p.224, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The secret subversive goal of my work is to show that women, not just lesbians, are regular human beings.

  Alison Bechdel

  Goal, Secret, Shows

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• What would happen if we spoke the truth?

  Alison Bechdel

  Spokes, Happens, Ifs

  Alison Bechdel (2007). “Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic”, p.123, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Was Daedalus really stricken with grief when Icarus fell into the sea? Or just disappointed by the design failure

  Alison Bechdel

  Grief, Sea, Design

  Alison Bechdel (2007). “Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic”, p.15, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It's our very capacity for self-consciousness that makes us self-destructive!

  Alison Bechdel

  Self, Consciousness, Capacity

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• I'll watch a movie only if it meets the following criteria: 1. It has to have at least two women in it. 2. Who talk to each other. 3. About something besides a man.

  Alison Bechdel

  Movie, Men, Two

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• Grief takes many forms, including the absence of grief

  Alison Bechdel

  Grief, Absence, Form

  Alison Bechdel (2007). “Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic”, p.223, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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 falls in love with beauty is quite different from the man who loves a girl and feels she is beautiful and can see what is beautiful about her.

  Alison Bechdel

  Beautiful, Girl, Falling In Love

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• If it weren't for the unconventionality of my desires, my mind might never have been forced to reckon with my body.

  Alison Bechdel

  Mind, Desire, Body

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• 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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• It certainly was an important moment for me, that realization that I was not going to get what I wanted. It was very freeing. I keep using that word "freeing" or "liberating." I feel like Houdini sometimes, like I'm just getting out of one set of shackles after another, hanging upside down inside a burlap bag with handcuffs on. Hopefully one day, I'm going to get out of this tank of water.

  Alison Bechdel

  Water, Important, One Day

  Source: www.progressive.org

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

  Alison Bechdel

  Fun, Writing, Drawing

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• 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 a novel or something, I want to know how much of that really happened to this author.

  Alison Bechdel

  Book, Reading, Thinking

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• I'm not that good of a drawer. I don't know how people just draw stuff out of their head. I'm always creating schemes. If I have to draw someone sitting in a chair, I have to go find a chair, sit in it, and take a picture of myself sitting in it.

  Alison Bechdel

  People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• 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

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• I don't know, maybe it's because I was raised Catholic. Confession has always held a great appeal for me.

  Alison Bechdel

  Catholic, Confession, Appeals

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• And partly, the worst thing you could do in my family was need something from someone. So physical strength represented an avenue of self-sufficiency to me.

  Alison Bechdel

  Self, Needs, My Family

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• 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

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

  Alison Bechdel

  Girl, Weak

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• Who embalms the Undertaker when he dies?

  Alison Bechdel

  Undertaker, Dies

  Alison Bechdel (2007). “Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic”, p.51, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

  Alison Bechdel

  Years, Mainstream Culture, Feminism

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• Drawing is more fun to me than writing. I think it's interesting to talk to different cartoonists about how those activities work for them. I'm a very writerly cartoonist. I certainly spend more time on the writing than I do on the drawing, even though the drawing, of course, is very time-consuming.

  Alison Bechdel

  Fun, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• Basically, my work is play. It never actually feels that way - I'm always aiming to attain that state. But I get to do for a living what I did as a child for fun, and that's pretty cool.

  Alison Bechdel

  Fun, Children, Play

  Source: progressive.org

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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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