“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 kitche...”
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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 kitche...”
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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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“The specific story line that people have responded to the most has been the horror of bathing suit shopping.”
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“I'm more financially successful, but it just means the shopping blunders I make are bigger now.”
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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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“I'd love to see more equal representation of female and male cartoonists on the comics page.”
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“I never thought Cathy would get married in the comic strip. And I also thought I would never get married.”
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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 emotiona...”
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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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“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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“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 relati...”
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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 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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“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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“I wasn't intending to create a comic strip to begin with. So I think I wasn't aware that when the strip started, there had never been a woman's voice quite like this in the newspaper.”
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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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“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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“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 t...”
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