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In 1976 I wrote a lot about women trying to claim the right to work.

Cathy Guisewite

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Cathy Guisewite
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: September 5
Cartoonist
Comics Artist
Dayton
Ohio
Cathy Lee Guisewite
Women
Right
Trying
Work
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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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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.
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The story of a mother's life: Trapped between a scream and a hug.
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All mothers have intuition. The great ones have radar.
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Every time I get something under control in my own life, the world provides more material.
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[On men:] I'm torn between wanting to have one and wanting to be one.
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Wake me up when I'm a size 5.
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Allow yourself to graduate, every five years.
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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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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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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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I've found it's better to talk to the machine and hang up if I get the person.
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Animal welfare issues have always been important to me.
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So often, happiness is the extent to which we balance our grandiose expectations with reality.
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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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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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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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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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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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