Cathy Guisewite

“I never thought Cathy would get married in the comic strip. And I also thought I would never get married.”

“Animal welfare issues have always been important to me.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Generally, I liked feeling able to connect with millions of women on a very deep level. It felt special that women especially would cut out my strip and place it on a refrigerator.”

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

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

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

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

“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 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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”