Quotes by Alison Bechdel

About Alison Bechdel:

Alison Bechdel is an American cartoonist. Originally best known for the long-running comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For, she came to critical and commercial success in 2006 with her graphic memoir Fun Home, which was subsequently adapted as a musical which won a Tony Award for Best Musical in 2015. She is a 2014 recipient of the MacArthur "Genius" Award. She is also known for the Bechdel test, an indicator of gender bias in film.
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Who embalms the Undertaker when he dies?

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

Gatsby's self-willed metamorphosis from farm boy to prince is many ways identical to my father's. Like Gatsby, my father fueled this transformation with the "colossal vitality of his illusion". Unlike Gatsby he did this on a school teacher's salary.

Alison Bechdel

Feminism is the theory. Lesbianism is the practice.

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

Grief takes many forms, including the absence of grief

Alison Bechdel

How Horrid" has a slightly facetious tone that strikes me as Wildean. It appears to embrace the actual horror--puberty, public disgrace--then at the last second nimbly sidesteps it, laughing.

Alison Bechdel

It was not a triumphal return. Home, as I had known it, was gone.

Alison Bechdel

At first I was glad for the help. My freshmen English class, "Mythology and Archetypal Experience," confounded me. I didn't understand why we couldn't just read books without forcing contorted interpretations on then

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It's a hard thing to age a character because you can't really suddenly give someone gray hair.

Alison Bechdel

One of them is already having some menopausal symptoms. I'm working on that. I'm giving them all little lines under the eyes, trying to sort of make them age gracefully.

Alison Bechdel

It's our very capacity for self-consciousness that makes us self-destructive!

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

Psychoanalytic insight, Miller seems to suggest, is itself a pathological symptom.

Alison Bechdel

On our second date, she kissed me in a bar. I invited her home. We just caught the F train, which seemed like a good omen.

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

I hope that I can get people to read it without having to change it. Especially now that the strip has more different kinds of characters. It's really not all lesbians any more.

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.

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I'm pretty illiterate when it comes to comics history.

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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.

Alison Bechdel

Author Bio

  • NameAlison Bechdel
  • DescriptionAmerican cartoonist, author
  • BornOctober 9, 1960
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionCartoonist; Author
  • WorksFun Home; Are You My Mother?
  • AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship; MacArthur Fellows Program; Lambda Literary Award