“Your 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.”
“Your 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
“Mom, how come you never go outside?""I told you, I'm a vampire.”
Alison Bechdel“She has given me a way out.”
Alison Bechdel“Don'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“I do lend my books, but I have to be a bit selective because my marginalia are so incriminating.” --Alison Bechdel”
Leah Price, Unpacking My Library: Writers and Their Books“Psychoanalytic insight, Miller seems to suggest, is itself a pathological symptom.”
Alison Bechdel, Are You My Mother?“It's our very capacity for self-consciousness that makes us self-destructive!”
Alison Bechdel, Are You My Mother?“Your 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, Are You My Mother?“It was not a triumphal return. Home, as I had known it, was gone.”
Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic“How 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, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic“Who embalms the Undertaker when he dies?”
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