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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
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Who embalms the Undertaker when he dies?Alison Bechdel
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Feminism is the theory. Lesbianism is the practice.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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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