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Alison Bechdel Inspirational Quotes (59)

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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.
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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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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.
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Who embalms the Undertaker when he dies?
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Sometimes I wish the writing and drawing were more integrated.
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I never really read superhero stuff as a kid.
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For some reason writing and drawing are very separate processes for me.
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I'm pretty illiterate when it comes to comics history.
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Even drawing gray hair at all is difficult to render in black and white.
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Watching everyone root through their psyche, it just delights me. Especially R. Crumb's stuff.
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Well, I'm always working on my comic strip and trying to, you know, keep cranking that out.
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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.
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I’m glad mainstream culture is starting to catch up to where lesbian-feminism was 30 years ago.
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The secret subversive goal of my work is to show that women, not just lesbians, are regular human beings.
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You can't live and write at the same time.
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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.
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Was Daedalus really stricken with grief when Icarus fell into the sea? Or just disappointed by the design failure
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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.
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It's our very capacity for self-consciousness that makes us self-destructive!
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What would happen if we spoke the truth?
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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.
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But I read comic books. I read things like Richie Rich and Little Lulu.
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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.
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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 read books without forcing contorted interpretations on then
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