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

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Alison Bechdel
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: September 10
Cartoonist
Comics Artist
Novelist
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Lock Haven
Pennsylvania
Alison J. Bechdel
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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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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.
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Yeah, I read Judy Blume. My mother didn't like that, but I read it anyhow.
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It's a hard thing to age a character because you can't really suddenly give someone gray hair.
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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.
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I'm pretty illiterate when it comes to comics history.
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I'd been upstaged, demoted from protagonist in my own drama to comic relief in my parents' tragedy
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When I was growing up in the 1960s, there was starting to be more books geared towards young adults.
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I probably read Harriet the Spy about 70,000 times.
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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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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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Sometimes I wish the writing and drawing were more integrated.
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It was not a triumphal return. Home, as I had known it, was gone.
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It's our very capacity for self-consciousness that makes us self-destructive!
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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.
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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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For some reason writing and drawing are very separate processes for me.
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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.
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