Explore Quotes by Cathy Guisewite

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Defy your own group. Rebel against yourself.

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

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.

What happened to the good old days of "Woman as passive recipient?" What happened to being courted? What happened to sitting back under a parasol and granting someone a chance to try to win us over?

All mothers have intuition. The great ones have radar.

Otherwise, my whole career has just been flinging myself at whatever is most overdue first and letting everything else stack up.

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.

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.

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

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.

Everyday is a new beginning and a chance to blow it.

The story of a mother's life: Trapped between a scream and a hug.

Each of us wages a private battle each day between the grand fantasies we have for ourselves and what actually happens.

When life gives you lemons, squirt someone in the eye.