Cathy Guisewite Quotes

• The specifics of Cathy?s and my life are different now, but the basic life challenges are exactly the same.

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  Tags in Specifics

• The specific story line that people have responded to the most has been the horror of bathing suit shopping.

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  Tags in Horror, Bathing, Most

• 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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  Tags in Mom, Between, Disguise, Relationship

• The biggest change in my life is that I now have to apologize for being thin.

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  Tags in Apologize

• 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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  Tags in Flinging, Everything, Most, Letting

• My mother had always taught me to write about my feelings instead of sharing really personal things with others, so I spent many evenings writing in my diary, eating everything in the kitchen and waiting for Mr. Wrong to call.

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  Topics in Love

  Tags in Taught, Relationships

• 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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  Tags in Best, Dog, Think, Every, Jokes

• Mothers send strips to daughters to make a point. Daughters smack strips down on the breakfast table to make a point. My own mom sometimes cuts a strip out and sends it to me to make sure I understand her.

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  Tags in Breakfast, Strips, Daughters

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

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  Topics in Work

  Tags in Wrote, Women

• I’m most proud of having created something that men never completely get.

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  Tags in Never, Something, Men

• I’m more financially successful, but it just means the shopping blunders I make are bigger now.

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  Tags in Successful, Bigger, Blunder

• I’m married, which means that instead of occasionally wondering about men from afar, I actually live with one and can be constantly astounded by the strange male brain.

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  Tags in Means, Wondering, Constantly, Married, Live, Men

• 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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  Topics in Humor

  Tags in Herself, Great, Home, Denial

• I’d love to see more equal representation of female and male cartoonists on the comics page.

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  Tags in Cartoonist, Representation

• I never thought Cathy would get married in the comic strip. And I also thought I would never get married.

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  Tags in Thought, Married

• 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.

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  Topics in Children

  Tags in Worked, Think

• I had such a close relationship with my dog, and my dog so filled the need in my life to have children that I just wanted Cathy to have that experience.

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  Tags in Relationship, Close

• Every time I get something under control in my own life, the world provides more material.

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  Tags in World, Every, Something

• Defy your own group. Rebel against yourself.

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  Tags in Rebel, Defy

• Cathy was the first widely syndicated humor strip created by a woman. The strip was pretty revolutionary at the time not only because it starred a female, but also because it was so emotionally honest about all the conflicting feelings many women had in 1976.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Revolutionary, Strip, Syndicated, Conflicting, Honest, Pretty, Feelings

Cathy Guisewite (25)

Birth:	5th September, 1950
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Cartoonist

About

Cathy Lee Guisewite was born in Dayton, Ohio. She is an American cartoonist who created the comic strip Cathy, which had a 34-year run. In 1972, she earned a Bachelor's degree in English. In 1987, she received an Emmy for Outstanding Animated Program for the TV special Cathy, which aired on CBS. She is a member of the National Cartoonists Society and received their highest honor, the Reuben Award for Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year, in 1992.

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