I 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 BechdelTags: truth shame erotic homosexuality
If it weren't for the unconventionality of my desires, my mind might never have been forced to reckon with my body.
Alison BechdelWhat would happen if we spoke the truth?
Alison BechdelShe has given me a way out.
Alison BechdelTags: art growing-up creativity mothers-and-daughters
Psychoanalytic insight, Miller seems to suggest, is itself a pathological symptom.
Alison BechdelTags: insight psychoanalysis
If there was ever a bigger pansy than my father, it was Marcel Proust.
Alison BechdelIt's said, after all, that people reach middle age the day they realize they're never going to read Remembrance of Things Past.
Alison BechdelOn our second date, she kissed me in a bar. I invited her home. We just caught the F train, which seemed like a good omen.
Alison BechdelHow 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 BechdelTags: growing-up perspective rhetoric
I am not ultimately interested in writing fiction. I can't make things up. Or rather, I can only make things up about things that have already happened.
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