123 Quotes by Alison Bechdel

At first I was glad for the help. My freshmen English class, "Mythology and Archetypal Experience," confounded me. I didn't understand why we couldn't just read books without forcing contorted interpretations on then

Feminism is the theory. Lesbianism is the practice.

For anyone but the landed gentry to refer to a room in their house as "the library" might seem affected. But there really was no other word for it.

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

It was not a triumphal return. Home, as I had known it, was gone.

If it weren't for the unconventionality of my desires, my mind might never have been forced to reckon with my body.

It's imprecise and insufficient, defining the homosexual as a person whose gender expression is at odds with his or her sex.

There was a certain thing I did not get from my mother.There is a lack, a gap, a void."How's that?"But in it's place, she has given me something else.Something, I would argue, that is far more valuable."I think I can get up now."She has given me the way out.

The idea that our unconscious possesses such sure aim excited me. I became more attuned to my own erroneously carried out actions.