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

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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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Men should come with instruction booklets.
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Now I'm searching for a slightly overweight, single, childless woman who doesn't have a date and isn't too depressing to be around. It's getting harder to find a girlfriend than a boyfriend.
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Every time I get something under control in my own life, the world provides more material.
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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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The specific story line that people have responded to the most has been the horror of bathing suit shopping.
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In 1976 I wrote a lot about women trying to claim the right to work.
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I've found it's better to talk to the machine and hang up if I get the person.
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What happened to the good old days of Woman as passive recipient? What happened to being courted? What happened to sitting back under a parasol and granting someone a chance to try to win us over?
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Allow yourself to graduate, every five years.
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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.
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[On men:] I'm torn between wanting to have one and wanting to be one.
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I have an office in my house and one about five minutes from my house. I worked solely out of my house for many years, but find, with children, that I have to be in a different ZIP code to think.
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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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I'm more financially successful, but it just means the shopping blunders I make are bigger now.
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All mothers have intuition. The great ones have radar.
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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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Wake me up when I'm a size 5.
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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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Otherwise, my whole career has just been flinging myself at whatever is most overdue first and letting everything else stack up.
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