Top 40 Cathy Guisewite Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Everyday is a new beginning and a chance to blow it.”

— Cathy Guisewite

2. “Sometimes the best Christmas present is remembering what you’ve already got.”

— Cathy Guisewite

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

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4. “The story of a mother’s life: Trapped between a scream and a hug.”

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

— Cathy Guisewite

6. “What happened to the good old days of “Woman as passive recipient?” What happened to being courted? What happened to sitting back under a parasol and granting someone a chance to try to win us over?”

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7. “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.”

— Cathy Guisewite

8. “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.”

— Cathy Guisewite

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

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10. “Defy your own group. Rebel against yourself.”

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11. “All mothers have intuition. The great ones have radar.”

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12. “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.”

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

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14. “My heart always belongs to the one who doesn’t want it.”

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15. “I understand the sensitivities of grown children with little ones of their own!! They’ll turn away a mother full of advice, but they’ll never say no to one holding a mop.”

— Cathy Guisewite

16. “A young bride can put on makeup at 6 in the morning and look fabulous at midnight. I have about a 15-minute window where I actually look good, and then I have to wash my face and start over.”

— Cathy Guisewite

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

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18. “Wake me up when I’m a size 5.”

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19. “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.”

— Cathy Guisewite

20. “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.”

— Cathy Guisewite

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

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22. “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.”

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23. “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.”

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

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25. “Allow yourself to graduate, every five years.”

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26. “After 14 years of dieting, there are only two things I’ve never lost. Hope and weight.”

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27. “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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28. “Men date. Women have relationships.”

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29. “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.”

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30. “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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31. “I’ve found it’s better to talk to the machine and hang up if I get the person.”

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32. “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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33. “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.”

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34. “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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35. “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.”

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36. “Men should come with instruction booklets.”

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

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

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39. “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.”

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40. “I can’t tell my conscience from my insecurities.”

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

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

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

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

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

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48. “When you eat a carrot that is nothing but carrot it zooms through your system as a carrot. When you eat a piece of mass-produced carrot cake that contains 32 ingredients, your metabolism screeches to a halt while your body tries to figure out what all those things are that you just swallowed, and what it is supposed to do with them. Therefore, the problem isn’t “fat”, its piles of excess ingredients your body’s stacked on shelves and vowed to sort out later.”

— Cathy Guisewite