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I'm most proud of having created something that men never completely get.

Cathy Guisewite

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Cathy Guisewite
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: September 5
Cartoonist
Comics Artist
Dayton
Ohio
Cathy Lee Guisewite
Created
Completely
Proud
Something
Never
Men

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Allow yourself to graduate, every five years.
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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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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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Food, love, career, and mothers, the four major guilt groups.
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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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Food ... love ... mother ... career ... Live every day to the fullest. Partake of the four basic guilt groups.
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The story of a mother's life: Trapped between a scream and a hug.
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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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Men should come with instruction booklets.
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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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Animal welfare issues have always been important to me.
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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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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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So often, happiness is the extent to which we balance our grandiose expectations with reality.
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In 1976 I wrote a lot about women trying to claim the right to work.
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[On men:] I'm torn between wanting to have one and wanting to be one.
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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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Wake me up when I'm a size 5.
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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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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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