Alison Bechdel

Cartoonist and graphic memoirist

1960-09-10

Alison Bechdel is an American cartoonist and graphic memoirist known for Dykes to Watch Out For and Fun Home.

Quotes by Alison Bechdel

Feminism is the theory. Lesbianism is the practice.
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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.
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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.
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Who embalms the Undertaker when he dies?
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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.
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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.
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Feminism is the theory. Lesbianism is the practice.
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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.
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Who embalms the Undertaker when he dies?
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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.
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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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I probably read Harriet the Spy about 70,000 times.
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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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When I was growing up in the 1960s, there was starting to be more books geared towards young adults.
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