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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
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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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I grew to resent the way my father treated his furniture like children, and his children like furniture.
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I just have this sort of entrepreneurial spirit and I work really hard at promoting myself.
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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 started to get bored with that stuff about only drawing men and I've taken it out of the slideshow.
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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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It's imprecise and insufficient, defining the homosexual as a person whose gender expression is at odds with his or her sex.
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I get to do for a living what I did as a child for fun, and that's pretty cool.
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You can't live and write at the same time.
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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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