Cathy Guisewite
Cathy Guisewite
Cathy Lee Guisewiteis an American cartoonist who created the comic strip Cathy, which had a 34-year run. The strip focused on a career woman facing the issues and challenges of eating, work, relationships and having a mother—or as the character put it in one strip, "the four basic guilt groups."...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionComic Book Author
Date of Birth5 September 1950
CityDayton, OH
CountryUnited States of America
years graduates five-years
Allow yourself to graduate, every five years.
weight body lines
This is a business meal. The calories do not count. I am mentally labeling these as 'business calories' so my body will know they were eaten in the line of duty and will process them differently.
friends depressing girlfriend
Now I'm searching for a slightly overweight, single, childless woman who doesn't have a date and isn't too depressing to be around. It's getting harder to find a girlfriend than a boyfriend.
mother careers guilt
Food ... love ... mother ... career ... Live every day to the fullest. Partake of the four basic guilt groups.
hair perfect one-day
One day, in 1982, for 15 minutes, my hair was perfect.
men torn
[On men:] I'm torn between wanting to have one and wanting to be one.
men instruction should
Men should come with instruction booklets.
happiness reality expectations
So often, happiness is the extent to which we balance our grandiose expectations with reality.
mom real hypnosis
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.
dog thinking secret
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.
children thinking years
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.
mother writing waiting
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.
dog people house
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.
letting-go careers firsts
Otherwise, my whole career has just been flinging myself at whatever is most overdue first and letting everything else stack up.