Cathy Guisewite – Quotes Crazy

A lot of married people certainly have wonderful relationships with their dogs, but when youre single and your dog is the only other living thing in your house, its a really special relationship which I wanted CATHY to have. – Cathy Guisewite

Cartooning is a wonderful career, and Id like more women to get to have it. I cant think of any reason why we wont see more syndicated female cartoonists in the future. – Cathy Guisewite

Im 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. – Cathy Guisewite

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. – Cathy Guisewite

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. – 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. – Cathy Guisewite

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. – Cathy Guisewite

Defy your own group. Rebel against yourself. – Cathy Guisewite

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

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. – Cathy Guisewite