Alisha

“This is one of my difficulties now... my fear that Mom will find this memoir about her "angry." Another difficulty is the fact that the story of my mother and me is unfolding even as I write it.”
― Alison Bechdel, Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama

“Lots of things died in that storm, hon. Sometimes, that's how you go, unmentioned and nameless.”
― Ram V., The Many Deaths of Laila Starr #1

“I'm sure these things are true. But the way she says them feels like an implied criticism. As if she's comparing her own selflessness to my self-absorption. But of course that's just evidence of my self-absorption. My mother is probably not thinking anything like this. In fact, my desire to think that she's thinking of me at all is a bit pathetic.”
― Alison Bechdel, Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama

“Here's the vital core of Winnicott's theory:
The subject must destroy the object. And the object must survive this destruction. If the object doesn't survive, it will remain internal, a projection of the subject's self. If the object survives destruction, the subject can see it as separate.”
― Alison Bechdel, Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama