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
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.
inspiring mothers-day mom
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.
mom teaching drawing
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.
mom real humor
I'm 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.
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.
self training groups
There are self-awareness groups, to help you discover who you really are ... encounter groups, to help you deal with who you really are ... assertiveness training groups to help you stand up for who you really are ... Suddenly, the only way to become an individual is to join a group.
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.
heart want my-heart
My heart always belongs to the one who doesn't want it.
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.