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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.
Cathy Guisewite
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Cathy Guisewite
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: September 5
Cartoonist
Comics Artist
Dayton
Ohio
Cathy Lee Guisewite
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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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I'm most proud of having created something that men never completely get.
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Wake me up when I'm a size 5.
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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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I'm more financially successful, but it just means the shopping blunders I make are bigger now.
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The story of a mother's life: Trapped between a scream and a hug.
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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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The specific story line that people have responded to the most has been the horror of bathing suit shopping.
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A young bride can put on makeup at 6 in the morning and look fabulous at midnight. I have about a 15-minute window where I actually look good, and then I have to wash my face and start over.
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Allow yourself to graduate, every five years.
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In 1976 I wrote a lot about women trying to claim the right to work.
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