Quotes by Alison Bechdel - Page 1

I never really read superhero stuff as a kid.
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Superhero
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Autobiographical comics, I love them. I love them.
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Autobiographical
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I probably read Harriet the Spy about 70,000 times.
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Spy
Harriet
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I'm pretty illiterate when it comes to comics history.
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Illiterate
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But mostly, it's a book about my relationship with my father.
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Mostly
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Sometimes I wish the writing and drawing were more integrated.
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Drawing
Integrated
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Partly I resented being perceived as weak because I was a girl.
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Weak
Partly
Perceived
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The satiric ethos of Mad was a much bigger childhood influence.
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Bigger
Ethos
Influence
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For some reason writing and drawing are very separate processes for me.
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Drawing
Processes
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I love Jules Feiffer. I didn't discover him until I was a little older.
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Discover
Jules
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But I read comic books. I read things like Richie Rich and Little Lulu.
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Comic
Comic Books
Richie
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Even drawing gray hair at all is difficult to render in black and white.
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Black And White
Drawing
Gray
Gray Hair
Render
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Yeah, I read Judy Blume. My mother didn't like that, but I read it anyhow.
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Yeah
Anyhow
Judy
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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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Comic
Comic Strip
Cranking
Strip
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I just have this sort of entrepreneurial spirit and I work really hard at promoting myself.
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Entrepreneurial
Entrepreneurial Spirit
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Watching everyone root through their psyche, it just delights me. Especially R. Crumb's stuff.
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Crumb
Delights
Psyche
Root
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It's a hard thing to age a character because you can't really suddenly give someone gray hair.
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Gray
Gray Hair
Hard Thing
Suddenly
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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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Adult
Geared
Towards
Young Adults
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I started to get bored with that stuff about only drawing men and I've taken it out of the slideshow.
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Bored
Drawing
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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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Catholic
Confession
Raised
Great Always Me
Appeal
Great Me Always
Held
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My mother is, my father certainly was. They were kind of the local intelligentsia in the town where I grew up.
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Mother Where Father
Certainly
Intelligentsia
Local
Town
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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.
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Wind
Bear
Exactly
Gone With The Wind
Met
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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.
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Acknowledge
Fighting
Studied
Eventually
Quit
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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.
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Physical Strength
Self Sufficiency
Worst
Family Strength Me
Avenue
Partly
Physical
Worst Thing
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I'll watch a movie only if it meets the following criteria: 1. It has to have at least two women in it. 2. Who talk to each other. 3. About something besides a man.
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Movie
Men
Two
Watches
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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.
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Lines
Symptoms
Gracefully
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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.
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Different Kinds
Change Hope People
Lesbians
Strip
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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.
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Access
Collections
Mad
Subscription
Magazine
Mostly
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Writing this book feels like a completely different activity from writing my comic strip because it's about real life. I feel like I'm using a part of my brain that's been dormant until now.
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Activity
Comic
Dormant
Real Life
Comic Strip
Strip
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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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Nancy
Outfits
Clothing
Descriptions
Drew
Wait
Minute
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It's definitely part of it, that the men were having fun and doing the interesting things but also, I don't know, I'm just thinking more about gender and how maybe in some way I am more of a boy than a girl.
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Having Fun
Interesting Things
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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.
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Novel
Reading
Important People Know
Author
Finish
People Important Know
How Much
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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.
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Identity
Memoir
Dissect
Project
Figured
Hoping
Investigate
Something Else
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I get a lot of mail from men who really identify with Stuart, you know, Sparrow's boyfriend. I love that. Even though I used to say I wanted men to read the strip even though there weren't any men in it, so they'd be forced to identify with the women.
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Boyfriend
Mail
Love Men Women
Love Women Men
Forced
Identify
Sparrow
Strip
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