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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.

Cathy Guisewite

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Cathy Guisewite
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: September 5
Cartoonist
Comics Artist
Dayton
Ohio
Cathy Lee Guisewite
Personal
Drawings
Millions
Strip
Imagine
Comic
Start
Drawing
Enjoy
Mom
Keep
Surprise
Things
Lifetime
People
Teaching
Insisted

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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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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 can't tell my conscience from my insecurities.
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Food, love, career, and mothers, the four major guilt groups.
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I'm most proud of having created something that men never completely get.
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In 1976 I wrote a lot about women trying to claim the right to work.
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Wake me up when I'm a size 5.
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Animal welfare issues have always been important to me.
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Allow yourself to graduate, every five years.
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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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I've found it's better to talk to the machine and hang up if I get the person.
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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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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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Because the majority of my readers are women, I feel that one public service I can provide to them is to spread the message of regular mammograms and early detection within the strip.
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[On men:] I'm torn between wanting to have one and wanting to be one.
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Every time I get something under control in my own life, the world provides more material.
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Men should come with instruction booklets.
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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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All mothers have intuition. The great ones have radar.
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