What would happen if we spoke the truth?

- 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

Grief takes many forms, including the absence of grief

- Alison Bechdel

The secret subversive goal of my work is to show that women, not just lesbians, are regular human beings.

- Alison Bechdel

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

- 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…

- Alison Bechdel

Was Daedalus really stricken with grief when Icarus fell into the sea? Or just disappointed by the design failure

- 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…

- Alison Bechdel

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

- Alison Bechdel