"I'm lucky that my real-life Mom has both a great sense of humor about herself and an amazing ability to slip into complete denial if the subject matter gets a little too close to home."
-Cathy Guisewite
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"The relationship between Cathy and Mom in the strip is the one relationship drawn from real life that I have proudly never even tried to disguise.“
-Cathy Guisewite
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"Cathy was the first widely syndicated humor strip created by a woman. The strip was pretty revolutionary at the time not only because it starred a female, but also because it was so emotionally honest about all the conflicting feelings many women had in 1976."
-Cathy Guisewite
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"Food, love, career, and mothers, the four major guilt groups."
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"Defy your own group. Rebel against yourself."
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"A lot of married people certainly have wonderful relationships with their dogs, but when you're single and your dog is the only other living thing in your house, it's a really special relationship which I wanted CATHY to have."
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"I had such a close relationship with my dog, and my dog so filled the need in my life to have children that I just wanted Cathy to have that experience."
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