Are You My Mother Alison Bechdel Quotes & Sayings

I have never read Sylvia Plath. My mother has never read Virginia Woolf. In general, we have stayed out of one another's way like this. — Alison Bechdel

Don't you kids get any ideas about dragging a trailer into the backyard. after you graduate from high school, i don't want to see you again. — Alison Bechdel

Ranger's gonna hate this," Tank said. "Better to get shot than to have to explain the gate. Bad enough I got a horse that smells like his shower gel. — Janet Evanovich

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

Football was always a deal we made with ourselves. We adopted it for its brutality, which was embedded in a context that happened to be perfectly suited to television and to gambling, but which we could convince ourselves was only incidental to our enjoyment because it was only incidental to the game itself. — Charlie Pierce

All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it. — John Locke

If you would not be forgotten, do things worth remembering. — Benjamin Franklin

Although I am good at enumerating my father's flaws, it's hard for me to sustain much anger at him. I expect this is partly because he's dead, and partly because the bar is lower for fathers than it is for mothers. — Alison Bechdel

I had been to the South many times and I thought I knew what the South was, but not until you live with people and live through their lives do you know what it's really about. — Genevieve Gorder

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

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

Mom, how come you never go outside?"
"I told you, I'm a vampire. — Alison Bechdel