Alison Bechdel Quotes

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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

It's imprecise and insufficient, defining the homosexual as a person whose gender expression is at odds with his or her sex.

Alison Bechdel

I'd been upstaged, demoted from protagonist in my own drama to comic relief in my parents' tragedy

Alison Bechdel

Was Daedalus really stricken with grief when Icarus fell into the sea? Or just disappointed by the design failure

Alison Bechdel

The web is my unconscious but it's also a wish -- a fantasy of what my own creativity might look like if I weren't constantly impeding its flow.

Alison Bechdel

I grew to resent the way my father treated his furniture like children, and his children like furniture.

Alison Bechdel

Alison Bechdel

Alison Bechdel

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Born: September 10, 1960 (age 64)

Bio: Alison Bechdel is an American cartoonist.

Known for:

Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic (2006)
Are You My Mother? (2012)
The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For (2008)
New Improved!: Dykes to Watch Out For (1990)

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