Although I am good at enumerating my father’s flaws, it’s hard for me to sustain much anger at him. I expect this is partly because he’s dead, and partly because the bar is lower for fathers than it is for mothers.
Was Daedalus really stricken with grief when Icarus fell into the sea? Or just disappointed by the design failure - Alison Bechdel
Was Daedalus really stricken with grief when Icarus fell into the sea? Or just disappointed by the design failure
- Alison Bechdel
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… - Alison Bechdel
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…
What would happen if we spoke the truth? - Alison Bechdel
What would happen if we spoke the truth?
It's our very capacity for self-consciousness that makes us self-destructive! - Alison Bechdel
It's our very capacity for self-consciousness that makes us self-destructive!
Grief takes many forms, including the absence of grief - Alison Bechdel
Grief takes many forms, including the absence of grief
The secret subversive goal of my work is to show that women, not just lesbians, are regular human beings. - Alison Bechdel
The secret subversive goal of my work is to show that women, not just lesbians, are regular human beings.
In a narcissistic cathexis, you invest more energy into your ideas about another person than in the actual, objective, external person. So the man wh… - Alison Bechdel
In a narcissistic cathexis, you invest more energy into your ideas about another person than in the actual, objective, external person. So the man wh…
People really want to think that these things really happened. I don't know why that is important, but I know that when I finish reading a novel or s… - Alison Bechdel
People really want to think that these things really happened. I don't know why that is important, but I know that when I finish reading a novel or s…
I grew to resent the way my father treated his furniture like children, and his children like furniture. - Alison Bechdel
I grew to resent the way my father treated his furniture like children, and his children like furniture.
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