Alison Bechdel Quotes

“Grief takes many forms, including the absence of grief.”
― 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 who falls in love with beauty is quite different from the man who loves a girl and feels she is beautiful and can see what is beautiful about her.”
― Alison Bechdel, Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama

“I put the odds on a psychic deathmatch between Attila the Hun and Virginia Woolf at fifty-fifty.”
― Alison Bechdel, Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama

“The moment the feeling enters the body is political.”
― Adrienne Rich

“The moment when a feeling enters the body is political.”
― Adrienne Rich