Alison Bechdel Professions : Cartoonist Born : September 10, 1960 Browse All Authors Top 69 quotes by Alison Bechdel Watching everyone root through their psyche, it just delights me. Especially R. Crumb's stuff. Alison Bechdel delight roots stuff Who embalms the Undertaker when he dies? Alison Bechdel undertaker dies Political is personal; personal is political. I never was a political person until I realized I was a lesbian. I was this oblivious middle-class white kid who didn’t understand the powers of oppression or structure or anything. My very existence became politicized for me and that’s what enabled me to see all these things. It wasn’t just me, it was a whole cultural movement that was also doing those things that I was a part of. Alison Bechdel It’s sad and absurd that the College of Charleston is facing a funding cut for teaching my book – a book which is, after all, about the toll that this sort of small-mindedness takes on people’s lives. Alison Bechdel latest-headlines I get a lot of mail from men who really identify with Stuart, you know, Sparrow's boyfriend. I love that. Even though I used to say I wanted men to read the strip even though there weren't any men in it, so they'd be forced to identify with the women. Alison Bechdel you women love men But mostly, it's a book about my relationship with my father. Alison Bechdel about relationship father book My mother is, my father certainly was. They were kind of the local intelligentsia in the town where I grew up. Alison Bechdel where up mother father 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 i-can change hope people 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. Alison Bechdel eyes age trying giving Similar Authors Al Capp cartoonist Bill Amend cartoonist Bryan Lee O'Malley cartoonist Art Spiegelman cartoonist Alex Toth cartoonist Alex Raymond cartoonist All Authors
