A biography for Alison Bechdelhasn’t been written yet.
“It's a hard thing to age a character because you can't really suddenly give someone gray hair.”
“It's definitely part of it, that the men were having fun and doing the interesting things but also, I don't know, I'm just thinking more about gender and how maybe in some way I am more of a boy than a girl.”
“My mother is, my father certainly was. They were kind of the local intelligentsia in the town where I grew up.”
“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.”
“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.”
“One of them is already having some menopausal symptoms. I'm working on that. I'm giving them all little lines under the eyes, trying to sort of make them age gracefully.”
“Feminism is the theory. Lesbianism is the practice.”
“I probably read Harriet the Spy about 70,000 times.”
“I suppose that a lifetime spent hiding one's erotic truth could have a cumulative renunciatory effect. Sexual shame is in itself a kind of death.”
“Watching everyone root through their psyche, it just delights me. Especially R. Crumb's stuff.”
“I just have this sort of entrepreneurial spirit and I work really hard at promoting myself.”
“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.”
“I'm pretty illiterate when it comes to comics history.”
“It was not a triumphal return. Home, as I had known it, was gone.”
“Mostly it was Mad magazine. And I did read a lot of - I had a subscription when I was little, but I also had access to some old collections, the little paperbacks of the really good stuff.”
“Autobiographical comics, I love them. I love them.”
“I love Jules Feiffer. I didn't discover him until I was a little older.”
“For some reason writing and drawing are very separate processes for me.”
“Yeah, I read Judy Blume. My mother didn't like that, but I read it anyhow.”