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Alison Bechdel is an American cartoonist known for her comic strip 'Bechdel Test'. Her work is celebrated for its emotional depth and humor, exploring themes such as gender, family, and identity.

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Famous Alison Bechdel Quotes

“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.”

Children Death Father Grief Childhood Adults Parents Elude

Book:Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

Source: Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

“I grew to resent the way my father treated his furniture like children, and his children like furniture.”

Way Children Father Grew Treated Furniture Resent

Author:Alison Bechdel

“My father once nearly came to blows with a female dinner guest about whether a particular patch of embroidery was fuchsia or magenta. But the infinite gradations of color in a fine sunset - from salmon to canary to midnight blue - left him wordless.”

Father Left Particular Color Fine Female Infinite Blue Blow Dinner Sunset Guests Midnight Patches Salmon Canaries Embroidery Magenta Dinner Guests Midnight Blue

Author:Alison Bechdel

“If there was ever a bigger pansy than my father, it was Marcel Proust.”

Ifs Father Bigger Proust Pansies

Book:Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

Source: Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

“Although I am good at enumerating my father’s flaws, it’s hard for me to sustain much anger at him. I expect this is partly because he’s dead, and partly because the bar is lower for fathers than it is for mothers.”

Hard Mother Father Bars Flaws

Book:Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

Source: Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

About the Author

Born: September 10, 1960
Known for: Cartoonist
Quotes: 82

Books & Sources

Fun Home: A Family TragicomicRelated source material

Are You My Mother?: A Comic DramaRelated source material

The Secret to Superhuman StrengthRelated source material

Spent: A Comic NovelRelated source material

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