17 Quotes & Sayings By Alison Bechdel

Alison Bechdel is an American cartoonist, author, and illustrator. She is known as a pioneer of the graphic novel as a literary form, as her autobiographical work "Fun Home" was the first to be widely distributed as a graphic novel. Her most recent graphic novel is "Are You My Mother?" which is a memoir about her relationship with her father. She also writes for The New York Times.

I suppose that a lifetime spent hiding one's erotic truth...
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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
Who embalms the Undertaker when he dies?
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Who embalms the Undertaker when he dies? Alison Bechdel
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Don't you kids get any ideas about dragging a trailer into the backyard. after you graduate from high school, i don't want to see you again. Alison Bechdel
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Four years after my father's death, when the subject of parents came up in conversation i would relate the information in a flat, matter-of-fact tone eager to detect in my listener the flinch of grief that eluded me. Alison Bechdel
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Feminism is the theory. Lesbianism is the practice. Alison Bechdel
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She has given me a way out. Alison Bechdel
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Grief takes many forms, including the absence of grief. Alison Bechdel
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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
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It was not a triumphal return. Home, as I had known it, was gone. Alison Bechdel
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Mom, how come you never go outside?"" I told you, I'm a vampire. Alison Bechdel
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Your unconscious wants to express the pain you feel about your own lost innocence. But your ego wants to keep it repressed. To the compromise is anxiety. Alison Bechdel
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If it weren't for the unconventionality of my desires, my mind might never have been forced to reckon with my body. Alison Bechdel
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It's imprecise and insufficient, defining the homosexual as a person whose gender expression is at odds with his or her sex. Alison Bechdel
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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
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It's our very capacity for self-consciousness that makes us self-destructive! Alison Bechdel
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Psychoanalytic insight, Miller seems to suggest, is itself a pathological symptom. Alison Bechdel