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Alison Bechdel

"Well, I'm always working on my comic strip and trying to, you know, keep cranking that out."

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"Well, I'm always working on my comic strip and trying to, you know, keep cranking that out."

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"I checked out all types of tobacco trying to find one that would be easiest to live with, I ended up using pipe tobacco. It burned slower, and it wasn't as harsh on my throat... It also smelled better."

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"I've been in Washington ever since 1981, trying to get out!"

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"I always believed that I could make it or I would never have spent so many years trying to get here."

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"They asked me why I was wearing heels, and I said, I'm trying to hide my ass. They gave me a prosthetic behind."

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"I'm just trying to make a buck like everyone else."

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"I'm not trying to be the new anybody."

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"Oh I am trying to remember, we would read the script after we did the show."

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"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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"I started to get bored with that stuff about only drawing men and I've taken it out of the slideshow."
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"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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"It's a hard thing to age a character because you can't really suddenly give someone gray hair."
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"Mostly it was Mad magazine. And I did read a lot of - I had a subscription when I was little, but I also had access to some old collections, the little paperbacks of the really good stuff."
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"I love Jules Feiffer. I didn't discover him until I was a little older."
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