Quotes About Alison Bechdel

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

I'd been upstaged, demoted from protagonist in my own drama to comic relief in my parents' tragedy

If it weren't for the unconventionality of my desires, my mind might never have been forced to reckon with my body.

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.

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.

did that require such a leap of the imagination? Perhaps affectation can be so thoroughgoing, so authentic in its details, that it stops being pretense… and becomes, for all practical purposes, real.

Over the course of my life, as I have made my Houdini-like escapes from one self-imposed constraint after another, a question haunts me with increasing insistence. How many levels does this game have?

on Stonewall Inn] And while I acknowledge the absurdity of claiming a connection to that mythologized flashpoint...might not a lingering vibration, a quantum of rebellion, still have hung in the humectant air?

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

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

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.