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Alison Bechdel

"My mother is, my father certainly was. They were kind of the local intelligentsia in the town where I grew up."

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"My mother is, my father certainly was. They were kind of the local intelligentsia in the town where I grew up."

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A.E. Samaan

"A mother is the most important blessing of your life."

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A.E. Samaan

"The longest tenured First LOVE and Greatest TEACHER, in-fact life long, is none the other, but Mother."

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A.E. Samaan

"We never got anything out of the recordings. I'm still as broke as I was when I was with the Mothers."

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A.E. Samaan

"I think a lot of the Mothers stuff that we recorded was written while we were on the road."

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A.E. Samaan

"I don't know how Frank presented the old Mothers, since I never read the book. There might be some opinions on what he said, but I - or anyone else - could not make any corrections to anything Frank did."

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A.E. Samaan

"I had this whole ritual with my mother making the bed with me inside it so I would be invisible."

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A.E. Samaan

"Be kind to your mother-in-law, but pay for her board at some good hotel."

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A.E. Samaan

"I heard stories from my mother's mother who was an American Indian. She was spiritual, although she did not go to church, but she had the hum. She used to tell me stories of the rivers."

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A.E. Samaan

"When I was 5, my mother threw a party, and a friend and I wrote and performed a play called The Dutch Doll."

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A.E. Samaan

"I didn't grow up with my mother, and so losing her for real was like, some sort of latent childhood, some sort of unresolved issue. When she left for real, it was sort of like, I was done."

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Alison Bechdel
"I just met someone who read Gone With the Wind 62 times for exactly that same reason. She couldn't bear that it wasn't real. She wanted to live in it."

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Alison Bechdel
"When I grew up, I studied karate for years. I got pretty strong, but eventually I had to acknowledge that I really didn't like fighting at all, so I quit."

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Alison Bechdel
"I started to get bored with that stuff about only drawing men and I've taken it out of the slideshow."

Men

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Alison Bechdel
"The satiric ethos of Mad was a much bigger childhood influence."

Childhood

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Alison Bechdel
"I don't know, maybe it's because I was raised Catholic. Confession has always held a great appeal for me."

Confession

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Alison Bechdel
"Partly I resented being perceived as weak because I was a girl."

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Alison Bechdel
"I get a lot of mail from men who really identify with Stuart, you know, Sparrow's boyfriend. I love that. Even though I used to say I wanted men to read the strip even though there weren't any men in it, so they'd be forced to identify with the women."

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Alison Bechdel
"People really want to think that these things really happened. I don't know why that important, but I know that when I finish reading a novel or something, I want to know how much of that really happened to this author."

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Alison Bechdel
"Yeah, I read Judy Blume. My mother didn't like that, but I read it anyhow."

Mother

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Alison Bechdel
"Even drawing gray hair at all is difficult to render in black and white."

Hair

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