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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
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Alison Bechdel
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: September 10
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Lock Haven
Pennsylvania
Alison J. Bechdel
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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.
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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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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.
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Watching everyone root through their psyche, it just delights me. Especially R. Crumb's stuff.
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It's our very capacity for self-consciousness that makes us self-destructive!
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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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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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You can't live and write at the same time.
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For some reason writing and drawing are very separate processes for me.
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I probably read Harriet the Spy about 70,000 times.
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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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I just have this sort of entrepreneurial spirit and I work really hard at promoting myself.
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What would happen if we spoke the truth?
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Partly I resented being perceived as weak because I was a girl.
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It was a vicious cycle, though. The more gratification we found in our own geniuses, the more isolated we grew.
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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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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.
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I grew to resent the way my father treated his furniture like children, and his children like furniture.
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