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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.

Cathy Guisewite

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Cathy Guisewite
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: September 5
Cartoonist
Comics Artist
Dayton
Ohio
Cathy Lee Guisewite
Reason
Cartoonists
Think
Cartoonist
Thinking
Female
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Wonderful
Future
Syndicated
Women
Cartooning

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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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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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What happened to the good old days of Woman as passive recipient? What happened to being courted? What happened to sitting back under a parasol and granting someone a chance to try to win us over?
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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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Animal welfare issues have always been important to me.
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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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Every time I get something under control in my own life, the world provides more material.
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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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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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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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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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Wake me up when I'm a size 5.
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I can't tell my conscience from my insecurities.
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Allow yourself to graduate, every five years.
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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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This is a business meal. The calories do not count. I am mentally labeling these as 'business calories' so my body will know they were eaten in the line of duty and will process them differently.
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All mothers have intuition. The great ones have radar.
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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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