Alison Bechdel Quotes
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Who embalms the Undertaker when he dies?
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Autobiographical comics, I love them. I love them.
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It certainly was an important moment for me, that realization that I was not going to get what I wanted. It was very freeing. I keep using that word "freeing" or "liberating." I feel like Houdini sometimes, like I'm just getting out of one set of shackles after another, hanging upside down inside a burlap bag with handcuffs on. Hopefully one day, I'm going to get out of this tank of water.
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In a narcissistic cathexis, you invest more energy into your ideas about another person than in the actual, objective, external person. So the man who falls in love with beauty is quite different from the man who loves a girl and feels she is beautiful and can see what is beautiful about her.
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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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I try not to have anything too much going on between waking up and getting to work. I like to just be really fresh when I sit down. I always have my best ideas, like, within five minutes of starting. And then the rest of the day is just kind of putting in time.
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I’m glad mainstream culture is starting to catch up to where lesbian-feminism was 30 years ago.
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But I read comic books. I read things like Richie Rich and Little Lulu.
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If there was ever a bigger pansy than my father, it was Marcel Proust.
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I'm pretty illiterate when it comes to comics history.
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I probably read Harriet the Spy about 70,000 times.
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The satiric ethos of Mad was a much bigger childhood influence.
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The web is my unconscious but it's also a wish -- a fantasy of what my own creativity might look like if I weren't constantly impeding its flow.
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It was a vicious cycle, though. The more gratification we found in our own geniuses, the more isolated we grew.
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I get to do for a living what I did as a child for fun, and that's pretty cool.
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She has given me a way out.
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I could not do what I do if I were not obsessive compulsive to a certain extent. I don't act clinically OCD. I'm not going to check things so many times I have to take drugs for it. But the kind of complicated and painstaking work I have to do to make my drawings, it just kind of harnesses that compulsive energy in a constructive way.
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At first I was glad for the help. My freshmen English class, "Mythology and Archetypal Experience," confounded me. I didn't understand why we couldn't just read books without forcing contorted interpretations on then
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Sometimes I wish the writing and drawing were more integrated.
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I don't know how anyone gets anything done in New York City. I vastly prefer living in the country. I just need a lot of quiet and solitude, and I'm so easily distracted. I mean, the Internet is enough to deal with.
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Bechdel Test, was named for the comic strip it came from, penned by Alison Bechdel - but Bechdel credits a friend named Liz Wallace, so maybe it really should be called the Liz Wallace Test...? Anyway, the test is much simpler than the name. To pass it your movie must have the following: a) there are at least two named female characters, who b) talk to each other about c) something other than a man.
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It's a hard thing to age a character because you can't really suddenly give someone gray hair.
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I just have this sort of entrepreneurial spirit and I work really hard at promoting myself.
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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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People really want to think that these things really happened. I don't know why that is 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.
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Yeah, I read Judy Blume. My mother didn't like that, but I read it anyhow.
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I love Jules Feiffer. I didn't discover him until I was a little older.
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Nancy Drew was always changing her outfits. I despised girls' clothing, I couldn't wait to get home from school and get out of it. The last thing I wanted to read was minute descriptions of Nancy's frocks.
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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.
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The secret subversive goal of my work is to show that women, not just lesbians, are regular human beings.
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