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The secret subversive goal of my work is to show that women, not just lesbians, are regular human beings.
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 don't know how anyone gets anything done in New York City. I vastly prefer living in the country. I just need a lot of quiet and solitude, and I'm so easily distracted. I mean, the Internet is enough to deal with.
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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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I don't know, maybe it's because I was raised Catholic. Confession has always held a great appeal for me.
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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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It's our very capacity for self-consciousness that makes us self-destructive!
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Drawing is more fun to me than writing. I think it's interesting to talk to different cartoonists about how those activities work for them. I'm a very writerly cartoonist. I certainly spend more time on the writing than I do on the drawing, even though the drawing, of course, is very time-consuming.
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I probably read Harriet the Spy about 70,000 times.
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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 grew to resent the way my father treated his furniture like children, and his children like furniture.
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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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I never really read superhero stuff as a kid.
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I love Jules Feiffer. I didn't discover him until I was a little older.
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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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I just met someone who read Gone With the Wind 62 times for exactly that same reason. She couldn't bear that it wasn't real. She wanted to live in it.
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For some reason writing and drawing are very separate processes for me.
Alison Bechdel
Watching everyone root through their psyche, it just delights me. Especially R. Crumb's stuff.
Alison Bechdel
Was Daedalus really stricken with grief when Icarus fell into the sea? Or just disappointed by the design failure
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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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