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Alison Bechdel Quote: “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.”

51. “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.”

— Alison Bechdel

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Alison Bechdel Quote: “The writer’s business is to find the shape in unruly life and to serve her story. Not, you may note, to serve her family, or to serve the truth, but to serve the story.”

52. “The writer’s business is to find the shape in unruly life and to serve her story. Not, you may note, to serve her family, or to serve the truth, but to serve the story.”

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Alison Bechdel Quote: “I probably read Harriet the Spy about 70,000 times.”

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

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Alison Bechdel Quote: “Maybe the mother manages to be a mirror only part of the time. In such ‘tantalizing’ cases, some babies learn to withdraw their own needs when the mother’s are evident.”

54. “Maybe the mother manages to be a mirror only part of the time. In such ‘tantalizing’ cases, some babies learn to withdraw their own needs when the mother’s are evident.”

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Alison Bechdel Quote: “Language gets very confusing as it approaches this place where outside and inside touch.”

55. “Language gets very confusing as it approaches this place where outside and inside touch.”

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Alison Bechdel Quote: “The sudden approximation of my dull, provincial life to a New Yorker cartoon was exhilarating.”

56. “The sudden approximation of my dull, provincial life to a New Yorker cartoon was exhilarating.”

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Alison Bechdel Quote: “Sometimes I wish the writing and drawing were more integrated.”

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

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Alison Bechdel Quote: “The only thing to transcend is the idea that there’s something to transcend. Nirvana is samsara. I finally got the memo.”

58. “The only thing to transcend is the idea that there’s something to transcend. Nirvana is samsara. I finally got the memo.”

— Alison Bechdel

Alison Bechdel Quote: “I love Jules Feiffer. I didn’t discover him until I was a little older.”

59. “I love Jules Feiffer. I didn’t discover him until I was a little older.”

— Alison Bechdel

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

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

— Alison Bechdel

Alison Bechdel Quote: “Life many gay people of my generation, I would not behave like a teenager until I was in my twenties.”

61. “Life many gay people of my generation, I would not behave like a teenager until I was in my twenties.”

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Alison Bechdel Quote: “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.”

62. “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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Alison Bechdel Quote: “There are two ways to surpass your parents. Ones is to achieve the thing they had hoped for. One is somewhat easier: just to live longer.”

63. “There are two ways to surpass your parents. Ones is to achieve the thing they had hoped for. One is somewhat easier: just to live longer.”

— Alison Bechdel

Alison Bechdel Quote: “Well, I’m always working on my comic strip and trying to, you know, keep cranking that out.”

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

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Alison Bechdel Quote: “I put the odds on a psychic deathmatch between Attila the Hun and Virginia Woolf at fifty-fifty.”

65. “I put the odds on a psychic deathmatch between Attila the Hun and Virginia Woolf at fifty-fifty.”

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Alison Bechdel Quote: “Perhaps I’m being histrionic, trying to displace my actual grief with this imaginary trauma.”

66. “Perhaps I’m being histrionic, trying to displace my actual grief with this imaginary trauma.”

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Alison Bechdel Quote: “Or maybe he had gotten too inured to death, and was hoping to elicit from me an expression of the natural horror he was no longer capable of... I have made use of this technique myself, however, this attempts to access emotions vicariously... eager to detect in my listener that flinch of grief that eluded me.”

67. “Or maybe he had gotten too inured to death, and was hoping to elicit from me an expression of the natural horror he was no longer capable of... I have made use of this technique myself, however, this attempts to access emotions vicariously... eager to detect in my listener that flinch of grief that eluded me.”

— Alison Bechdel

Alison Bechdel Quote: “My parents seemed almost embarrassed by the fact of their marriage. There was no story, for example, of how they met.”

68. “My parents seemed almost embarrassed by the fact of their marriage. There was no story, for example, of how they met.”

— Alison Bechdel

Alison Bechdel Quote: “I only go to a movie if it satisfies three basic requirements. One, it has to have at least two women in it; two, two women talking to each other, and three, talking about something besides a man.”

69. “I only go to a movie if it satisfies three basic requirements. One, it has to have at least two women in it; two, two women talking to each other, and three, talking about something besides a man.”

— Alison Bechdel

Alison Bechdel Quote: “The more gratification we found in our own geniuses, the more isolated we grew... And in this isolation, our creativity took on an aspect of compulsion.”

70. “The more gratification we found in our own geniuses, the more isolated we grew... And in this isolation, our creativity took on an aspect of compulsion.”

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Alison Bechdel Quote: “Over the course of my life, as I have made my Houdini-like escapes from one self-imposed constraint after another, a question haunts me with increasing insistence. How many levels does this game have?”

71. “Over the course of my life, as I have made my Houdini-like escapes from one self-imposed constraint after another, a question haunts me with increasing insistence. How many levels does this game have?”

— Alison Bechdel

Alison Bechdel Quote: “Most people don’t even try to get what they want because of the painful reckoning with their parents it entails.”

72. “Most people don’t even try to get what they want because of the painful reckoning with their parents it entails.”

— Alison Bechdel

Alison Bechdel Quote: “The idea that I caused his death by telling my parents I was a lesbian is perhaps illogical. Causality implies connection, contact of some kind. And however convincing they might be, you can’t lay hands on a fictional character.”

73. “The idea that I caused his death by telling my parents I was a lesbian is perhaps illogical. Causality implies connection, contact of some kind. And however convincing they might be, you can’t lay hands on a fictional character.”

— Alison Bechdel

Alison Bechdel Quote: “I don’t think your family was a very safe place to be a little girl.”

74. “I don’t think your family was a very safe place to be a little girl.”

— Alison Bechdel

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