123 Quotes by Alison Bechdel

The web is my unconscious but it's also a wish -- a fantasy of what my own creativity might look like if I weren't constantly impeding its flow.

The secret subversive goal of my work is to show that women, not just lesbians, are regular human beings.

I'll watch a movie only if it meets the following criteria: 1. It has to have at least two women in it. 2. Who talk to each other. 3. About something besides a man.

And the idea that a story is true, that it actually happened, is endlessly compelling, I think, not just to me but to people in general.

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.

I mean, I'll have an idea about what a panel will look like as I'm writing, but I often don't touch a pencil until the text is completely finished.

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.

It’s our very capacity for self-consciousness that makes us self-destructive!

The sudden approximation of my dull, provincial life to a New Yorker cartoon was exhilarating.