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Alison Bechdel Quotes

Alison Bechdel quotes

American Cartoonist September 10, 1960

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Alison Bechdel quote: "Partly I resented being perceived as weak because I was a girl."
Partly I resented being perceived as weak because I was a girl. Alison Bechdel
I just met someone who read Gone With the Wind 62 times for exactly that same reason. She couldn't bear that it wasn't real. She wanted to live in it. 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
Alison Bechdel quote: "Yeah, I read Judy Blume. My mother didn't like that, but I..."
Yeah, I read Judy Blume. My mother didn't like that, but I read it anyhow. Alison Bechdel
Alison Bechdel quote: "I probably read Harriet the Spy about 70,000 times."
I probably read Harriet the Spy about 70,000 times. Alison Bechdel
Alison Bechdel quote: "Even drawing gray hair at all is difficult to render in black..."
Even drawing gray hair at all is difficult to render in black and white. Alison Bechdel
When I grew up, I studied karate for years. I got pretty strong, but eventually I had to acknowledge that I really didn't like fighting at all, so I quit. Alison Bechdel
Perhaps I identify too well with my father's illicit awe. A trace of this seems caught in the photo, just as a trace of Roy has been caught on the light-sensitive paper...It's a curiously ineffectual attempt at censorship. Why cross out the year and not the month? Why, for that matter, leave the photo in the envelope at all? In an act of prestidigitation typical of the way my father juggled his public appearance and private reality, the evidence is simultaneously hidden and revealed. Alison Bechdel
That's all true, but there was something else going on for me as a kid, something about my gender identity that I haven't figured out yet. And that's one of the things I'm hoping to dissect and investigate in this memoir project. Alison Bechdel
Alison Bechdel quote: "But I read comic books. I read things like Richie Rich and..."
But I read comic books. I read things like Richie Rich and Little Lulu. Alison Bechdel
People really want to think that these things really happened. I don't know why that 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. Alison Bechdel
Alison Bechdel quote: "When I was growing up in the 1960s, there was starting to be..."
When I was growing up in the 1960s, there was starting to be more books geared towards young adults. Alison Bechdel
Alison Bechdel quote: "I never really read superhero stuff as a kid."
I never really read superhero stuff as a kid. Alison Bechdel
It was a vicious circle, though. The more gratification we found in our own geniuses, the more isolated we grew. Our home was like an artists' colony. We ate together, but otherwise were absorbed in our separate pursuits. And in this isolation, our creativity took on an aspect of compulsion. Alison Bechdel

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