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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.
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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It was a vicious cycle, though. The more gratification we found in our own geniuses, the more isolated we grew.
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Partly I resented being perceived as weak because I was a girl.
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Watching everyone root through their psyche, it just delights me. Especially R. Crumb's stuff.
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If there was ever a bigger pansy than my father, it was Marcel Proust.
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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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The secret subversive goal of my work is to show that women, not just lesbians, are regular human beings.
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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.
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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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