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Every time I get something under control in my own life, the world provides more material.
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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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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I'm most proud of having created something that men never completely get.
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A young bride can put on makeup at 6 in the morning and look fabulous at midnight. I have about a 15-minute window where I actually look good, and then I have to wash my face and start over.
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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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Wake me up when I'm a size 5.
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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 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.
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[On men:] I'm torn between wanting to have one and wanting to be one.
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In 1976 I wrote a lot about women trying to claim the right to work.
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The story of a mother's life: Trapped between a scream and a hug.
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Allow yourself to graduate, every five years.
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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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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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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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I've found it's better to talk to the machine and hang up if I get the person.
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All mothers have intuition. The great ones have radar.
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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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So often, happiness is the extent to which we balance our grandiose expectations with reality.
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