AtomicQuote

Alison Bechdel Quote

Maybe the mother manages to be a mirror only part of the time. In such 'tantalizing' cases, some babies learn to withdraw their own needs when the mother's are evident.

Alison Bechdel

Maybe the mother manages to be a mirror only part of the time. In such 'tantalizing' cases, some babies learn to withdraw their own needs when the mother's are evident.

Tags: mirror, mothers

Related Quotes

Change is inevitable. Progression is a choice. We all move, but are you going to move forward?

Ricky Maye

Change is inevitable. Progression is a choice. We all move, but are you going to move forward?

Tags: abuse, abused, abussive, acts, addiction, anxiety, beautiful, beauty, christian, church

I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

Ani DiFranco

I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

Tags: famous, myself, mirror, rich

If you do not cultivate your life's environment, you will not captivate the worlds enlightenment.

Ricky Maye

If you do not cultivate your life's environment, you will not captivate the worlds enlightenment.

Tags: abuse, abused, abussive, acts, addiction, anxiety, beautiful, beauty, christian, church

For your information, Lester, there are at least five wonderful parts of the female body that can be viewed by the owner only with a hand mirror.

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

For your information, Lester, there are at least five wonderful parts of the female body that can be viewed by the owner only with a hand mirror.

Tags: brother sister relationships, female, five, genitals, growing up, human, human body, mirror, puberty, sexuality

And she looked upon the mirror that was given as a gift. She hated everything about it, from the circular size of it, to the color, and the wooden frame that held it in place. But mostly, she hated lo...

Anthony Liccione

And she looked upon the mirror that was given as a gift. She hated everything about it, from the circular size of it, to the color, and the wooden frame that held it in place. But mostly, she hated lo...

Tags: belittle, cut, daughter, degrade, depreciate, devalue, diminish, family, father, home

For your information, Lester, there are at least five wonderful parts of the female body that can be viewed by the owner only with a hand mirror.'And as they stared after me, I went regally back down...

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

For your information, Lester, there are at least five wonderful parts of the female body that can be viewed by the owner only with a hand mirror.'And as they stared after me, I went regally back down...

Tags: brother, brother sister relationships, female, five, genitals, growing up, human, human body, mirror, puberty

A beautiful woman should always have at the back of her mind that her ravishing appearance is only an ephemeral quality. When she wakes up in the morning, looks into the mirror, and notices that somet...

Michael Bassey Johnson

A beautiful woman should always have at the back of her mind that her ravishing appearance is only an ephemeral quality. When she wakes up in the morning, looks into the mirror, and notices that somet...

Tags: action, advice, ageing, always, appearance, beautiful, beauty, best friend, bride, bride and groom

Your flesh is not a reflection of your soul. So when you look in the mirror, remember that your light outshines your flaws.

D. Antoinette Foy

Your flesh is not a reflection of your soul. So when you look in the mirror, remember that your light outshines your flaws.

Tags: beautiful, depression, flaws, human, light, love, love yourself, mirror, poem, poet

Trust is like a two-way mirror, transparent on one side, with a blind dimness unable to see through on the other side.

Anthony Liccione

Trust is like a two-way mirror, transparent on one side, with a blind dimness unable to see through on the other side.

Tags: belief, blind, confidence, conviction, dependence, dimness, expectation, faith, hope, mirror

Snow cleaning of the world's largest telescope mirrors was an impressive sight. The optics technicians would climb into a huge telescopic boom lift and spray immense clouds of cold carbon dioxide snow...

Steven Magee

Snow cleaning of the world's largest telescope mirrors was an impressive sight. The optics technicians would climb into a huge telescopic boom lift and spray immense clouds of cold carbon dioxide snow...

Tags: accumulated, astrobiology, astronomer, astronomical, astronomy, astrophysics, astrosociobiology, boom, carbon, cleaning
About Alison Bechdel

Alison Bechdel ( BEK-dəl; born September 10, 1960) is an American cartoonist. Originally known for the long-running comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For, she came to critical and commercial success in 2006 with her graphic memoir Fun Home, which was subsequently adapted as a musical that won a Tony Award for Best Musical in 2015. In 2012, she released her second graphic memoir Are You My Mother? She was a 2014 recipient of the MacArthur "Genius" Award. She is also known for originating the Bechdel test.