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I just have this sort of entrepreneurial spirit and I work really hard at promoting myself.
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'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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My father once nearly came to blows with a female dinner guest about whether a particular patch of embroidery was fuchsia or magenta. But the infinite gradations of color in a fine sunset - from salmon to canary to midnight blue - left him wordless.
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Partly I resented being perceived as weak because I was a girl.
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The satiric ethos of Mad was a much bigger childhood influence.
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If there was ever a bigger pansy than my father, it was Marcel Proust.
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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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I’m glad mainstream culture is starting to catch up to where lesbian-feminism was 30 years ago.
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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 don't know, maybe it's because I was raised Catholic. Confession has always held a great appeal for me.
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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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It's a hard thing to age a character because you can't really suddenly give someone gray hair.
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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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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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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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But I read comic books. I read things like Richie Rich and Little Lulu.
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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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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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It's our very capacity for self-consciousness that makes us self-destructive!
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