"But mostly, it’s a book about my relationship with my father." ― Alison Bechdel Topic(s): Relationship More From Alison Bechdel "I hope that I can get people to read it without having to change it. Especially now that the strip has more different kinds of characters. It’s really not all lesbians any more." "And partly, the worst thing you could do in my family was need something from someone. So physical strength represented an avenue of self-sufficiency to me." More In Relationship "Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it."― Samuel Smiles "There are tens of thousands of interactions every single day across Afghanistan between the Afghan troops and International Security Assistance Force. On most of those, every single day we continue to deepen and broaden the relationship we seek."― John R. Allen "If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone."― Ann Oakley