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I love Jules Feiffer. I didn't discover him until I was a little older.
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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More quotes by Alison Bechdel
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.
Alison Bechdel
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.
Alison Bechdel
When I was growing up in the 1960s, there was starting to be more books geared towards young adults.
Alison Bechdel
Yeah, I read Judy Blume. My mother didn't like that, but I read it anyhow.
Alison Bechdel
It's a hard thing to age a character because you can't really suddenly give someone gray hair.
Alison Bechdel
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.
Alison Bechdel
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.
Alison Bechdel
You can't live and write at the same time.
Alison Bechdel
I get to do for a living what I did as a child for fun, and that's pretty cool.
Alison Bechdel
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.
Alison Bechdel
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.
Alison Bechdel
For some reason writing and drawing are very separate processes for me.
Alison Bechdel
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.
Alison Bechdel
I'd been upstaged, demoted from protagonist in my own drama to comic relief in my parents' tragedy
Alison Bechdel
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
If there was ever a bigger pansy than my father, it was Marcel Proust.
Alison Bechdel
I’m glad mainstream culture is starting to catch up to where lesbian-feminism was 30 years ago.
Alison Bechdel
If it weren't for the unconventionality of my desires, my mind might never have been forced to reckon with my body.
Alison Bechdel
Even drawing gray hair at all is difficult to render in black and white.
Alison Bechdel
It's our very capacity for self-consciousness that makes us self-destructive!
Alison Bechdel