01UndatedI suppose that a lifetime spent hiding one's erotic truth could have a cumulative renunciatory effect. Sexual shame is in itself a kind of death.Alison Bechdel / quote ↗
03UndatedDon't you kids get any ideas about dragging a trailer into the backyard. after you graduate from high school, i don't want to see you again.Alison Bechdel / quote ↗
04UndatedFour years after my father's death, when the subject of parents came up in conversation i would relate the information in a flat, matter-of-fact tone eager to detect in my listener the flinch of grief that eluded me.Alison Bechdel / quote ↗
08UndatedHow Horrid" has a slightly facetious tone that strikes me as Wildean. It appears to embrace the actual horror--puberty, public disgrace--then at the last second nimbly sidesteps it, laughing.Alison Bechdel / quote ↗
11UndatedYour unconscious wants to express the pain you feel about your own lost innocence. But your ego wants to keep it repressed. To the compromise is anxiety.Alison Bechdel / quote ↗
12UndatedIf it weren't for the unconventionality of my desires, my mind might never have been forced to reckon with my body.Alison Bechdel / quote ↗
13UndatedIt's imprecise and insufficient, defining the homosexual as a person whose gender expression is at odds with his or her sex.Alison Bechdel / quote ↗
14UndatedGatsby's self-willed metamorphosis from farm boy to prince is many ways identical to my father's. Like Gatsby, my father fueled this transformation with the "colossal vitality of his illusion". Unlike Gatsby he did this on a school teacher's salary.Alison Bechdel / quote ↗
15UndatedIt's our very capacity for self-consciousness that makes us self-destructive!Alison Bechdel / quote ↗
16UndatedPsychoanalytic insight, Miller seems to suggest, is itself a pathological symptom.Alison Bechdel / quote ↗
