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I just have this sort of entrepreneurial spirit and I work really hard at promoting myself.
- Alison Bechdel
#Hard
#Just
#Myself
#Spirit
#Work
Mostly it was Mad magazine. And I did read a lot of - I had a subscription when I was little, but I also had access to some old collections, the little paperbacks of the really good stuff.
- Alison Bechdel
#Good
#Little
#Mad
#Magazine
#Old
I don't know, maybe it's because I was raised Catholic. Confession has always held a great appeal for me.
- Alison Bechdel
#Always
#Confession
#Great
#Know
#Me
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.
- Alison Bechdel
#Live
#Real
#Reason
#She
#Wind
When I grew up, I studied karate for years. I got pretty strong, but eventually I had to acknowledge that I really didn't like fighting at all, so I quit.
- Alison Bechdel
#Acknowledge
#Fighting
#Quit
#Strong
#Up
But I read comic books. I read things like Richie Rich and Little Lulu.
- Alison Bechdel
#Comic
#Like
#Little
#Rich
#Things
For some reason writing and drawing are very separate processes for me.
- Alison Bechdel
#Drawing
#Me
#Reason
#Separate
#Writing
But mostly, it's a book about my relationship with my father.
- Alison Bechdel
#About
#Book
#Father
#Relationship
It's a hard thing to age a character because you can't really suddenly give someone gray hair.
- Alison Bechdel
#Age
#Character
#Gray
#Hair
#Hard
I probably read Harriet the Spy about 70,000 times.
- Alison Bechdel
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#Harriet
#Read
#Spy
#Times
I never really read superhero stuff as a kid.
- Alison Bechdel
#Kid
#Never
#Read
#Really
#Stuff
I love Jules Feiffer. I didn't discover him until I was a little older.
- Alison Bechdel
#Discover
#Little
#Love
#Older
#Until
My mother is, my father certainly was. They were kind of the local intelligentsia in the town where I grew up.
- Alison Bechdel
#Father
#Mother
#Town
#Up
#Where
I'm pretty illiterate when it comes to comics history.
- Alison Bechdel
#Comics
#History
#Illiterate
#Pretty
The satiric ethos of Mad was a much bigger childhood influence.
- Alison Bechdel
#Bigger
#Childhood
#Influence
#Mad
#Much
Partly I resented being perceived as weak because I was a girl.
- Alison Bechdel
#Because
#Being
#Girl
#Perceived
#Weak
Autobiographical comics, I love them. I love them.
- Alison Bechdel
#Autobiographical
#I Love
#Love
#Them
Even drawing gray hair at all is difficult to render in black and white.
- Alison Bechdel
#Black And White
#Black
#Hair
#White
And partly, the worst thing you could do in my family was need something from someone. So physical strength represented an avenue of self-sufficiency to me.
- Alison Bechdel
#Family
#Me
#Need
#Strength
#Worst
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