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The story of a mother's life: Trapped between a scream and a hug.

Cathy Guisewite

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Cathy Guisewite
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: September 5
Cartoonist
Comics Artist
Dayton
Ohio
Cathy Lee Guisewite
Life
Hug
Trapped
Motherhood
Scream
Story
Mother
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[On men:] I'm torn between wanting to have one and wanting to be one.
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I'm most proud of having created something that men never completely get.
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Allow yourself to graduate, every five years.
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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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Men should come with instruction booklets.
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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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Wake me up when I'm a size 5.
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So often, happiness is the extent to which we balance our grandiose expectations with reality.
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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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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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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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Animal welfare issues have always been important to me.
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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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Every time I get something under control in my own life, the world provides more material.
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