123 Quotes by Alison Bechdel

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

I never really read superhero stuff as a kid.

My mother is, my father certainly was. They were kind of the local intelligentsia in the town where I grew up.

Watching everyone root through their psyche, it just delights me. Especially R. Crumb's stuff.

When I was growing up in the 1960s, there was starting to be more books geared towards young adults.

Yeah, I read Judy Blume. My mother didn't like that, but I read it anyhow.

When I grew up, I studied karate for years. I got pretty strong, but eventually I had to acknowledge that I really didn't like fighting at all, so I quit.

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.

Yeah, I think some of that is just wish-fulfillment, you know, how little kids fantasize through their drawings. I wanted to be powerful.