“It's our very capacity for self-consciousness that makes us self-destructive!”
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Famous Alison Bechdel Quotes
Source: Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
Source: Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
“You can't live and write at the same time.”
Source: Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama
Source: Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
“I’m glad mainstream culture is starting to catch up to where lesbian-feminism was 30 years ago.”
“Well, I'm always working on my comic strip and trying to, you know, keep cranking that out.”
“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.”
Source: Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama
“Even drawing gray hair at all is difficult to render in black and white.”
“For some reason writing and drawing are very separate processes for me.”
“I just have this sort of entrepreneurial spirit and I work really hard at promoting myself.”
“I love Jules Feiffer. I didn't discover him until I was a little older.”
“But I read comic books. I read things like Richie Rich and Little Lulu.”
“Partly I resented being perceived as weak because I was a girl.”
“Sometimes I wish the writing and drawing were more integrated.”
“Yeah, I read Judy Blume. My mother didn't like that, but I read it anyhow.”