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“Ginger: Oh, jeez. Well, uh… maybe you should talk to someone.Cynthia: I thought I was.”

Alison Bechdel book Dykes to Watch Out For

#452, "Absolute Value" (2004), collected in Invasion of the DTWOF (2005).
Dykes to Watch Out For

“Grief takes many forms, including the absence of grief.”

“I suppose that a lifetime spent hiding one's erotic truth could have a cumulative renunciatory effect. Sexual shame is in itself a kind of death.”

Source: Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

“It was not a triumphal return. Home, as I had known it, was gone.”

Source: Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

“It was a vicious cycle, though. The more gratification we found in our own geniuses, the more isolated we grew.”

Source: Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

“I still found literary criticism to be a suspect activity”

Source: Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

“I'd been upstaged, demoted from protagonist in my own drama to comic relief in my parents' tragedy”

Source: Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

“Then there were those famous wings. Was Daedalus really stricken with grief when Icarus fell into the sea? Or just disappointed by the design failure?”

Source: Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

“At first I was glad for the help. My freshmen English class, "Mythology and Archetypal Experience," confounded me.

I didn't understand why we couldn't just read books without forcing contorted interpretations on then”

Source: Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

“In this pause, I suddenly saw something very clearly.

Whatever it was I wanted from my mother was simply not there to be had. It was not her fault.

And it was therefore not my fault that I was unable to elicit it.”

Alison Bechdel book Are You My Mother?

Source: Are You My Mother?

“It's imprecise and insufficient, defining the homosexual as a person whose gender expression is at odds with his or her sex.”

Source: Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

“Anjali: Oh, wow. I am tripping out that I actually get to work here! Being constantly surrounded by books! Bringing ideas, poems, and manifestoes to the world! How can you stand it?!
Jezanna: That reminds me, Lois. The lube shipment just came in.”

Alison Bechdel book Dykes to Watch Out For

#252, "The Trouble with Sidney" (1996), collected in Hot, Throbbing DTWOF (1997).
Dykes to Watch Out For

“Miriam: Look, don't fixate on the due date. It's just an approximation. Only 5 percent of babies actually arrive on it. Most come later, in fact.
Clarice: Great! How much later? Two days? Three?
Miriam: Let me give you a friendly tip, Clarice. Don't get too hung up on keeping a tight schedule for the next, say, eighteen years or so.”

Alison Bechdel book Dykes to Watch Out For

#169, "Crushed" (1993), collected in Spawn of DTWOF (1993).
Dykes to Watch Out For

“Mrs. Pidgeon: That little girl whose mother is in the, um, "threesome." Why do you say she's confused about her gender? She seems perfectly normal to me.
Sparrow: Mom, she's a boy.
Mrs. Pidgeon: Oh. Well then, I'm not quite so worried about that revealing top. I was going to speak to her mother.”

Alison Bechdel book Dykes to Watch Out For

"Replicants," supplement in Dykes and Sundry Other Carbon-Based Life Forms TWOF (2003).
Dykes to Watch Out For

“Jezanna: Workers of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose but your chain store jobs!”

Alison Bechdel book Dykes to Watch Out For

#431, "Fight or Flight?" (2004), collected in Invasion of the DTWOF (2005).
Dykes to Watch Out For

“Ginger: [hauling Clarice up stairs in a wheelchair]: This ivory tower needs some ramps!
Clarice: What are you saying, Ginger?! Build ramps and anyone could get up!! The whole school would be overrun by black commie dykes in wheelchairs! Really, now!”

Alison Bechdel book Dykes to Watch Out For

#31, "Groves of Academe" (1988), collected in New, Improved! DTWOF (1990).
Dykes to Watch Out For

“Sparrow: If you'd get a vasectomy, we wouldn't have to go through this every time.
Stuart: But… but you know I want to have a baby eventually.
Sparrow: So make some deposits at a sperm bank first. Then we can inseminate like normal people when we're ready.”

Alison Bechdel book Dykes to Watch Out For

#385, "Just a Rhetorical Question" (2002), collected in Dykes and Sundry Other Carbon-Based Life Forms TWOF (2003).
Dykes to Watch Out For

“Harriet: [making an excuse] Um… I'm looking for a copy of The Wheat-Free Guide to Creative Visualization in Co-dependent Past-Life Relationships.
Mo: Huh. Jeez, I never heard of that one… Wonder if it's in spirituality or cooking.”

Alison Bechdel book Dykes to Watch Out For

#21, "By the Book" (1987), collected in More DTWOF (1988).
Dykes to Watch Out For

“Ginger: Get off it, Mo. If I can't ogle, I don't want to be part of your revolution.”

Alison Bechdel book Dykes to Watch Out For

#96, "Dancing in the Streets" (1990), collected in DTWOF: The Sequel (1992).
Dykes to Watch Out For

“Mo: Uh… sorry. I was just wondering why you're… you know… using that if normally you just use crutches.
Thea: Well, the chair is so much more dramatic, don't you think? I use it when I want people to feel extra sorry for me.”

Alison Bechdel book Dykes to Watch Out For

#124, "...A Rolling Donut" (1991), collected in DTWOF: The Sequel (1992).
Dykes to Watch Out For