When I grew up, I studied karate for years. I got pretty strong, but eventually I had to — Alison Bechdel
When I was growing up in the 1960s, there was starting to be more books geared towards young adults. — Alison Bechdel
Watching everyone root through their psyche, it just delights me. Especially r. Crumb’s stuff. — Alison Bechdel
Well, I’m always working on my comic strip and trying to, you know, keep cranking that out. — Alison Bechdel
That’s all true, but there was something else going on for me as a kid, something about — Alison Bechdel
People really want to think that these things really happened. I don’t know why that important — Alison Bechdel
Nancy drew was always changing her outfits. I despised girls’ clothing, I couldn’t wait to — Alison Bechdel
My mother is, my father certainly was. They were kind of the local intelligentsia in the town where I grew up. — Alison Bechdel
It’s definitely part of it, that the men were having fun and doing the interesting things but also — Alison Bechdel
Mostly it was mad magazine. And I did read a lot of – I had a subscription when I was little — Alison Bechdel
It’s a hard thing to age a character because you can’t really suddenly give someone gray hair. — Alison Bechdel
I started to get bored with that stuff about only drawing men and I’ve taken it out of the slideshow. — Alison Bechdel
I just met someone who read gone with the wind 62 times for exactly that same reason. — Alison Bechdel
I just have this sort of entrepreneurial spirit and I work really hard at promoting myself. — Alison Bechdel
I get a lot of mail from men who really identify with stuart, you know, sparrow’s boyfriend. — Alison Bechdel
And partly, the worst thing you could do in my family was need something from someone. — Alison Bechdel
I don’t know, maybe it’s because I was raised catholic. Confession has always held a great appeal for me. — Alison Bechdel
