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Alison Bechdel Quotes

When I was growing up in the 1960s, there was starting to be more books geared towards young adults.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: cartoonist
Nationality: american
Birth: September 10, 1960

Topics

Growing Up Growing Young More Up

If you just stop and think, baby, honey, love is a funny thing. Whatever you put in, that's what you expect to gain.

Funny Love Love Is Baby Think You

Even if you have something that you can contribute to society, very often society doesn't view you that way. Because when you are The Other, the first response by the mainstream, if you will, is to ostracize.

Society View You Will Way First

I positively encourage time abroad to anybody. It's worth taking the time to suss out which countries in the world are well funded for your subject and look for opportunities there.

Jocelyn Bell Burnell

Time World Opportunities Worth Look

When I read 'Another Country' when I was in my early 20s, you know, as soon as I put the book down, my first thought was, 'I will never be able to write a book like this.' And my second thought was, 'I really want to try writing a book like this for the 21st century.'

Writing Book Thought You Early Down

In wrestling, my mustache made me look more like a villain. A good mustache can give you the look of the devil.

Good Me Villain Devil You Look

The protest that we go to or the time that we stand up for someone or do the right thing - despite its difficulty... We might not see the return of it, but who knows whose lives we can change by doing those things.

Change Time Do The Right Thing Stand

Obviously, you look for something that is commensurate with your age. You know that you can't be playing the young hero anymore, and you have to be relegated to something smaller and something elderly, and you just try and do your best.

Amitabh Bachchan

Age Hero Best Do Your Best You Look

I'd never really been content with just churning out these slim volumes every three or four years. I've always tried to think of poetry as an active ingredient in the language rather than just something that appears between the covers of thin books.

Poetry Think Language Three Never

One thing that I think never goes out of style is just purity. Niceness and purity. And the Muppets have never lost that. Kermit especially is just wide-eyed wonder, unblinking. And he can't blink. Which I think probably helps.

Style Think Wonder Lost Never Out

We march on because all lives matter, not to be judged by the color of their skin.

Color Skin March Matter Because

I felt very proud to be part of a music scene that was changing the face of commercial music and rock music internationally, but I also felt like it was necessary for Soundgarden - as it was for all of these Seattle bands - to prove that we deserve to be on an international stage, and we weren't just part of a fad that was based on geography.

Music Proud Face Geography Rock

I'm usually too shy to write on planes because I assume that everyone on board is as nosy as I am and will look over my shoulder and read what I'm writing.

I Am Writing Look Shy Will Shoulder

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