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[On men:] I'm torn between wanting to have one and wanting to be one.

Cathy Guisewite

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Cathy Guisewite
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: September 5
Cartoonist
Comics Artist
Dayton
Ohio
Cathy Lee Guisewite
Torn
Wanting
Men

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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.
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Animal welfare issues have always been important to me.
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Allow yourself to graduate, every five years.
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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 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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I can't tell my conscience from my insecurities.
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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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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 1976 I wrote a lot about women trying to claim the right to work.
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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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So often, happiness is the extent to which we balance our grandiose expectations with reality.
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Every time I get something under control in my own life, the world provides more material.
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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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