Alison Bechdel Quotes

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Alison Bechdel

Profession : Cartoonist

Birth : September 10, 1960

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

Alison Bechdel

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

Alison Bechdel

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

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I never really read superhero stuff as a kid.

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

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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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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.

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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.

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

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

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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.

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

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