Alison Bechdel

And partly, the worst thing you could do in my family was need something from someone. So physical strength represented an avenue of self-sufficiency to me. ↗

— Alison Bechdel

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Autobiographical comics, I love them. I love them. ↗

— Alison Bechdel

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But I read comic books. I read things like Richie Rich and Little Lulu. ↗

— Alison Bechdel

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But mostly, it's a book about my relationship with my father. ↗

— Alison Bechdel

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I don't know, maybe it's because I was raised Catholic. Confession has always held a great appeal for me. ↗

— Alison Bechdel

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I hope that I can get people to read it without having to change it. Especially now that the strip has more different kinds of characters. It's really not all lesbians any more. ↗

— Alison Bechdel

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I just have this sort of entrepreneurial spirit and I work really hard at promoting myself. ↗

— Alison Bechdel

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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. ↗

— Alison Bechdel

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