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Alison Bechdel

I just have this sort of entrepreneurial spirit and I work really hard at promoting myself.

— Alison Bechdel work

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

— Alison Bechdel character

I probably read Harriet the Spy about 70,000 times.

— Alison Bechdel time

I don't know, maybe it's because I was raised Catholic. Confession has always held a great appeal for me.

— Alison Bechdel great

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.

— Alison Bechdel love

For some reason writing and drawing are very separate processes for me.

— Alison Bechdel writing

I started to get bored with that stuff about only drawing men and I've taken it out of the slideshow.

— Alison Bechdel art

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

— Alison Bechdel history

Partly I resented being perceived as weak because I was a girl.

— Alison Bechdel art

Sometimes I wish the writing and drawing were more integrated.

— Alison Bechdel writing

Well, I'm always working on my comic strip and trying to, you know, keep cranking that out.

— Alison Bechdel work

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 art

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 reading

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 identity

Even drawing gray hair at all is difficult to render in black and white.

— Alison Bechdel win

When I was growing up in the 1960s, there was starting to be more books geared towards young adults.

— Alison Bechdel books

Yeah, I read Judy Blume. My mother didn't like that, but I read it anyhow.

— Alison Bechdel mother

Watching everyone root through their psyche, it just delights me. Especially R. Crumb's stuff.

— Alison Bechdel light

Autobiographical comics, I love them. I love them.

— Alison Bechdel love

But I read comic books. I read things like Richie Rich and Little Lulu.

— Alison Bechdel books

But mostly, it's a book about my relationship with my father.

— Alison Bechdel relationship

I love Jules Feiffer. I didn't discover him until I was a little older.

— Alison Bechdel love

I never really read superhero stuff as a kid.

— Alison Bechdel read

My mother is, my father certainly was. They were kind of the local intelligentsia in the town where I grew up.

— Alison Bechdel mother

The satiric ethos of Mad was a much bigger childhood influence.

— Alison Bechdel childhood

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