Alison Bechdel Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“Well, I'm always working on my comic strip and trying to, you know, keep cranking that out.”

“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.”

“People really want to think that these things really happened. I don't know why that important, but I know that when I finish reading a novel or something, I want to know how much of that really happened to this author.”

“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.”

“Even drawing gray hair at all is difficult to render in black and white.”

“When I was growing up in the 1960s, there was starting to be more books geared towards young adults.”

“Yeah, I read Judy Blume. My mother didn't like that, but I read it anyhow.”

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

“I just met someone who read Gone With the Wind 62 times for exactly that same reason. She couldn't bear that it wasn't real. She wanted to live in it.”

“Autobiographical comics, I love them. I love them.”