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“Four 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, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

“There is no justice in following unjust laws.”
― Aaron Swartz, The Boy Who Could Change the World: The Writings of Aaron Swartz

“You can't live and write at the same time.”
― Alison Bechdel, Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama

“My mother must have bathed me hundreds of times. But it's my father rinsing me off with the purple metal cup that I remember most clearly. The suffusion of warmth as the hot water sluiced over me...
...the sudden, unbearable cold of its absence.”
― Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic