Quotes by Cathy Guisewite

About Cathy Guisewite:

Cathy Lee Guisewite is an American cartoonist who created the comic strip Cathy, which had a 34-year run. The strip focused on a career woman facing the issues and challenges of eating, work, relationships and having a mother—or as the character put it in one strip, "the four basic guilt groups."
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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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I wanted Cathy and Irving to actually say 'I do' and be pronounced husband and wife on Feb. 5, which is my mom's birthday.

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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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The best strips are the most honest. That's just the truth of it.

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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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Food, love, career, and mothers, the four major guilt groups.

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

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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...

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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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Defy your own group. Rebel against yourself.

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

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

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I love comics, and I can't imagine life without them. I love newspaper comics.

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I never thought Cathy would get married in the comic strip. And I also thought I would never get married in real life. So both are shocks to me.

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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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All parents believe their children can do the impossible. They thought it the minute we were born, and no matter how hard we've tried to prove them wrong, they all think it about us now. And the really annoying thing is, they're probably right.

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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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Animal welfare issues have always been important to me.

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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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Author Bio

  • NameCathy Guisewite
  • DescriptionCartoonist
  • BornSeptember 5, 1950
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionCartoonist
  • AwardsEmmy Award