Quote

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.

Cathy Guisewite

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Cathy Guisewite
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: September 5
Cartoonist
Comics Artist
Dayton
Ohio
Cathy Lee Guisewite
Friends
Depressing
Woman
Searching
Slightly
Doesn
Date
Around
Girlfriend
Find
Harder
Childless
Single
Overweight
Getting
Boyfriend

More quotes by Cathy Guisewite

Image
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.
Cathy Guisewite
Image
All mothers have intuition. The great ones have radar.
Cathy Guisewite
Image
Allow yourself to graduate, every five years.
Cathy Guisewite
Image
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.
Cathy Guisewite
Image
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.
Cathy Guisewite
Image
The story of a mother's life: Trapped between a scream and a hug.
Cathy Guisewite
Image
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.
Cathy Guisewite
Image
So often, happiness is the extent to which we balance our grandiose expectations with reality.
Cathy Guisewite
Image
Animal welfare issues have always been important to me.
Cathy Guisewite
Image
Food, love, career, and mothers, the four major guilt groups.
Cathy Guisewite
Image
Men should come with instruction booklets.
Cathy Guisewite
Image
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
Image
I can't tell my conscience from my insecurities.
Cathy Guisewite
Image
I'm most proud of having created something that men never completely get.
Cathy Guisewite
Image
The specific story line that people have responded to the most has been the horror of bathing suit shopping.
Cathy Guisewite
Image
Otherwise, my whole career has just been flinging myself at whatever is most overdue first and letting everything else stack up.
Cathy Guisewite
Image
Food ... love ... mother ... career ... Live every day to the fullest. Partake of the four basic guilt groups.
Cathy Guisewite
Image
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.
Cathy Guisewite
Image
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
Image
In 1976 I wrote a lot about women trying to claim the right to work.
Cathy Guisewite