Alison Bechdel Quotes

Drawing is more fun to me than writing. I think it's interesting to talk to different cartoonists about how those activities work for them. I'm a very writerly cartoonist. I certainly spend more time on the writing than I do on the drawing, even though the drawing, of course, is very time-consuming.

I’m glad mainstream culture is starting to catch up to where lesbian-feminism was 30 years ago.

The writing is hard, and the drawing is fun. It's very satisfying to see a drawing start to come together.

Autobiographical comics, I love them. I love them.

It was a vicious cycle, though. The more gratification we found in our own geniuses, the more isolated we grew.

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.

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

I grew to resent the way my father treated his furniture like children, and his children like furniture.

I just met someone who read Gone With the Wind 62 times for exactly that same reason. She couldn't bear that it wasn't real. She wanted to live in it.

The satiric ethos of Mad was a much bigger childhood influence.

I'm pretty illiterate when it comes to comics history.

It's a hard thing to age a character because you can't really suddenly give someone gray hair.

I'd been upstaged, demoted from protagonist in my own drama to comic relief in my parents' tragedy