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
Cathy Guisewite quotes about
mean men brain
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.
glowing female pages
I'd love to see more equal representation of female and male cartoonists on the comics page.
humor feelings firsts
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.
funny-life mean successful
I'm more financially successful, but it just means the shopping blunders I make are bigger now.
winning trying sitting
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?
animal issues important
Animal welfare issues have always been important to me.
men proud
I'm most proud of having created something that men never completely get.
years two dieting
After 14 years of dieting, there are only two things I've never lost. Hope and weight.
years office aluminum-foil
Where's my tax form? Where's the file that's supposed to hold my W-2 form and interest statement? Where's the mileage log I specifically asked be kept last year?? Where's the monthly check summary? And who's been stuffing Visa receipts in the aluminum foil drawer??!! How embarrassing. I'm surrounded by idiots and I'm the only one in the office.
weight size
Wake me up when I'm a size 5.
voice chocolate hot
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.
machines found persons
I've found it's better to talk to the machine and hang up if I get the person.
mother children advice
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.
cells brain return
Breaking up: It's so easy to return their possessions, but so hard to get our brain cells back.