Alison Bechdel Quotes

A collection of quotes by Alison Bechdel.

Alison Bechdel is an influential American cartoonist and author. Born in 1960, Bechdel gained widespread recognition for her comic strip "Dykes to Watch Out For," which ran from 1983 to 2008. She is also known for her autobiographical graphic novel "Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic" (2006), which was later adapted into a Tony Award-winning Broadway musical. Bechdel's works explore themes of gender, sexuality, and identity, and she has received numerous accolades for her contributions to the field of graphic storytelling.

I suppose that a lifetime spent hiding one's erotic truth co

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

Truth Shame Homosexuality Erotic

And partly, the worst thing you could do in my family was ne

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

Strength

Nothingever happened on this globe, for good, at which some

Nothingever happened on this globe, for good, at which some people did not have their fill of laughter in the onset; and knowing that such as these would be blind anyway, he thought it quite as well that they should wrinkle up their eyes in grins, as have a malady in the less attractive forms.

Charles Dickens

Dad