Alison Bechdel Quotes & Sayings

“It's a hard thing to age a character because you can't really suddenly give someone gray hair.”

“I don't know, maybe it's because I was raised Catholic. Confession has always held a great appeal for me.”

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

“I probably read Harriet the Spy about 70,000 times.”

“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.”

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

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

“I'm pretty illiterate when it comes to comics history.”

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

“Sometimes I wish the writing and drawing were more integrated.”