Cathy Guisewite Quotes

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

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

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

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

Sometimes the best Christmas present is remembering what you've already got.

Men date. Women have relationships.

All mothers have intuition. The great ones have radar.

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

I can't tell my conscience from my insecurities.

Men should come with instruction booklets.

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

Defy your own group. Rebel against yourself.

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

After 14 years of dieting, there are only two things I've never lost. Hope and weight.

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

Allow yourself to graduate, every five years.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

[On men:] I'm torn between wanting to have one and wanting to be one.

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

Wake me up when I'm a size 5.

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

I've found it's better to talk to the machine and hang up if I get the person.

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.

Animal welfare issues have always been important to me.

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.

There are only two secrets to a slimmer shape ... High heels and shoulder pads!

Food ... love ... mother ... career ... Live every day to the fullest. Partake of the four basic guilt groups.

I was going to sip on a diet soda, but a little voice convinced me I needed the extra calcium from a cup of hot chocolate.

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

One day, in 1982, for 15 minutes, my hair was perfect.

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

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