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

Alison Bechdel

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Alison Bechdel
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: September 10
Cartoonist
Comics Artist
Novelist
Writer
Lock Haven
Pennsylvania
Alison J. Bechdel
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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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When I was growing up in the 1960s, there was starting to be more books geared towards young adults.
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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.
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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 started to get bored with that stuff about only drawing men and I've taken it out of the slideshow.
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Who embalms the Undertaker when he dies?
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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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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 get to do for a living what I did as a child for fun, and that's pretty cool.
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I tend to write first thing, and then do my drawing later. I like to draw at night. But often I go for long stretches without drawing, because I'm trying to figure out what I'm writing.
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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'm pretty illiterate when it comes to comics history.
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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 was not a triumphal return. Home, as I had known it, was gone.
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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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Watching everyone root through their psyche, it just delights me. Especially R. Crumb's stuff.
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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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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 love Jules Feiffer. I didn't discover him until I was a little older.
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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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