Cathy Guisewite

• "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.“
• "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.“
• "Food, love, career, and mothers, the four major guilt groups.“
• "Food, love, career, and mothers, the four major guilt groups.“
• "Defy your own group. Rebel against yourself.“
• "Cartooning is a wonderful career, and I'd like more women to get to have it. I can't think of any reason why we won't see more syndicated female cartoonists in the future.“
• "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.“
• "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 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.“
• "Food, love, career, and mothers, the four major guilt groups.“
• "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.“
• "Imagine my surprise when, after a lifetime of teaching me to keep personal things to myself, Mom insisted my drawings were the start of a comic strip for millions of people to enjoy.“
• "Mothers send strips to daughters to make a point. Daughters smack strips down on the breakfast table to make a point. My own mom sometimes cuts a strip out and sends it to me to make sure I understand her.“
• "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.“
• "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.“
• "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.“
• "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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