Cathy Guisewite Quotes - Page 2

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• So often, happiness is the extent to which we balance our grandiose expectations with reality.

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  Happiness, Reality, Expectations

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• There are self-awareness groups, to help you discover who you really are ... encounter groups, to help you deal with who you really are ... assertiveness training groups to help you stand up for who you really are ... Suddenly, the only way to become an individual is to join a group.

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  Self, Training, Encounters

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

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  Men, Proud

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• Breaking up: It's so easy to return their possessions, but so hard to get our brain cells back.

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  Cells, Brain, Return

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• 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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  Mean, Men, Brain

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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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  Dog, People, House

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• 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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  Children, Thinking, 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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  Mom, Teaching, Drawing

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• 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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  Humor, Feelings, Female

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• My heart always belongs to the one who doesn't want it.

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  Heart, Want, My Heart

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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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  Machines, Found, Persons

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• 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.

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  Majority, Mammograms, Messages

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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.

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  Thinking, Garbage Cans, Buying Something

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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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  Years, Office, Aluminum Foil

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• 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.

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  Children, Husband, Two

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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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  Mom, Real, Home

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• 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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  Inspiring, Mothers Day, Mom

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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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  Meals, Weight, Body

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• Wake me up when I'm a size 5.

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  Weight, Size

  Cathy Guisewite (2012). “I Am Woman, Hear Me Snore: A Cathy Collection”, p.3, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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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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  Mother, Careers, Guilt

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

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  Glowing, Males, Female

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

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  Trying, Claims

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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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  Letting Go, Careers, Firsts

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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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  Morning, Makeup, Starting Over

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

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  Apology, Apologizing, Life Is

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