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Food, love, career, and mothers, the four major guilt groups.

Cathy Guisewite

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Cathy Guisewite
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: September 5
Cartoonist
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Dayton
Ohio
Cathy Lee Guisewite
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Small wastebasket liners, $1.17 ... tall wastebasket liners, $2.29 ... garbage can liners, $3.98 ... I think I just spent $7.44 buying something I'm going to throw away.
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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.
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The story of a mother's life: Trapped between a scream and a hug.
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Food ... love ... mother ... career ... Live every day to the fullest. Partake of the four basic guilt groups.
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Animal welfare issues have always been important to me.
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I can't tell my conscience from my insecurities.
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So often, happiness is the extent to which we balance our grandiose expectations with reality.
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Where's my tax form? Where's the file that's supposed to hold my W-2 form and interest statement? Where's the mileage log I specifically asked be kept last year?? Where's the monthly check summary? And who's been stuffing Visa receipts in the aluminum foil drawer??!! How embarrassing. I'm surrounded by idiots and I'm the only one in the office.
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In the '80s, I thought I'd be a success as a woman if I were the president of a billion dollar company, had a sensitive soul-mate husband, two bilingual children, buns of steels, and a compost heap. In the '90s, I pretty much feel I'm a success if I can get through the afternoon without eating a cheesecake.
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The specific story line that people have responded to the most has been the horror of bathing suit shopping.
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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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This is a business meal. The calories do not count. I am mentally labeling these as 'business calories' so my body will know they were eaten in the line of duty and will process them differently.
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My dog was with me all the time. I talked to my dog. She was my best buddy. I shared all my secrets with her, but I don't think I every really tried jokes out with the dog.
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I'm most proud of having created something that men never completely get.
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Each of us wages a private battle each day between the grand fantasies we have for ourselves and what actually happens.
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Wake me up when I'm a size 5.
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In 1976 I wrote a lot about women trying to claim the right to work.
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Every time I get something under control in my own life, the world provides more material.
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I'm more financially successful, but it just means the shopping blunders I make are bigger now.
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[On men:] I'm torn between wanting to have one and wanting to be one.
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