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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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Alison Bechdel
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: September 10
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Lock Haven
Pennsylvania
Alison J. Bechdel
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Yeah, I read Judy Blume. My mother didn't like that, but I read it anyhow.
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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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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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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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I just have this sort of entrepreneurial spirit and I work really hard at promoting myself.
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It's our very capacity for self-consciousness that makes us self-destructive!
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If it weren't for the unconventionality of my desires, my mind might never have been forced to reckon with my body.
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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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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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Partly I resented being perceived as weak because I was a girl.
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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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It was not a triumphal return. Home, as I had known it, was gone.
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Watching everyone root through their psyche, it just delights me. Especially R. Crumb's stuff.
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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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Basically, my work is play. It never actually feels that way - I'm always aiming to attain that state. But 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 get to do for a living what I did as a child for fun, and that's pretty cool.
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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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