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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.
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 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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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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Mostly it was Mad magazine. And I did read a lot of - I had a subscription when I was little, but I also had access to some old collections, the little paperbacks of the really good stuff.
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The satiric ethos of Mad was a much bigger childhood influence.
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It's our very capacity for self-consciousness that makes us self-destructive!
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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 just have this sort of entrepreneurial spirit and I work really hard at promoting myself.
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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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I never really read superhero stuff as a kid.
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