• I suppose that a lifetime spent hiding one's erotic truth could have a cumulative renunciatory effect. Sexual shame is in itself a kind of death.

    Alison Bechdel: I suppose that a lifetime spent hiding one's erotic truth could have a cumulative renunciatory effect. Sexual shame is in itself a kind of death.
    Alison Bechdel (2007). “Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic”, p.224, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt