Alison Bechdel Quotes

Psychoanalytic insight, Miller seems to suggest, is itself a pathological symptom.
Alison Bechdel
It's our very capacity for self-consciousness that makes us self-destructive!
Alison Bechdel
Gatsby's self-willed metamorphosis from farm boy to prince is many ways identical to my father's. Like Gatsby, my father fueled this transformation with the "colossal vitality of his illusion". Unlike Gatsby he did this on a school teacher's salary.
Alison Bechdel
It's imprecise and insufficient, defining the homosexual as a person whose gender expression is at odds with his or her sex.
Alison Bechdel
If it weren't for the unconventionality of my desires, my mind might never have been forced to reckon with my body.
Alison Bechdel
Your unconscious wants to express the pain you feel about your own lost innocence. But your ego wants to keep it repressed. To the compromise is anxiety.
Alison Bechdel
Mom, how come you never go outside?""I told you, I'm a vampire.
Alison Bechdel
It was not a triumphal return. Home, as I had known it, was gone.
Alison Bechdel
How Horrid" has a slightly facetious tone that strikes me as Wildean. It appears to embrace the actual horror--puberty, public disgrace--then at the last second nimbly sidesteps it, laughing.
Alison Bechdel
Grief takes many forms, including the absence of grief.
Alison Bechdel
She has given me a way out.
Alison Bechdel
Feminism is the theory. Lesbianism is the practice.
Alison Bechdel
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.
Alison Bechdel
Don't you kids get any ideas about dragging a trailer into the backyard. after you graduate from high school, i don't want to see you again.
Alison Bechdel
Who embalms the Undertaker when he dies?
Alison Bechdel
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.
Alison Bechdel