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Wake me up when I'm a size 5.
Men date. Women have relationships.
Men should come with instruction booklets.
Defy your own group. Rebel against yourself.
Allow yourself to graduate, every five years.
I can't tell my conscience from my insecurities.
Everyday is a new beginning and a chance to blow it.
When life gives you lemons, squirt someone in the eye.
All mothers have intuition. The great ones have radar.
One day, in 1982, for 15 minutes, my hair was perfect.
My heart always belongs to the one who doesn't want it.
Animal welfare issues have always been important to me.
Food, love, career, and mothers, the four major guilt groups.
The story of a mother's life: Trapped between a scream and a hug.
The best strips are the most honest. That's just the truth of it.
In 1976 I wrote a lot about women trying to claim the right to work.
[On men:] I'm torn between wanting to have one and wanting to be one.
I'm most proud of having created something that men never completely get.
Sometimes the best Christmas present is remembering what you've already got.
The biggest change in my life is that I now have to apologize for being thin.
I've found it's better to talk to the machine and hang up if I get the person.
I love comics, and I can't imagine life without them. I love newspaper comics.
There are only two secrets to a slimmer shape ... High heels and shoulder pads!
After 14 years of dieting, there are only two things I've never lost. Hope and weight.
Every time I get something under control in my own life, the world provides more material.
I'd love to see more equal representation of female and male cartoonists on the comics page.
So often, happiness is the extent to which we balance our grandiose expectations with reality.
I'm more financially successful, but it just means the shopping blunders I make are bigger now.
Breaking up: It's so easy to return their possessions, but so hard to get our brain cells back.
I never thought Cathy would get married in the comic strip. And I also thought I would never get married.
The specifics of Cathy's and my life are different now, but the basic life challenges are exactly the same.
The specific story line that people have responded to the most has been the horror of bathing suit shopping.
Food ... love ... mother ... career ... Live every day to the fullest. Partake of the four basic guilt groups.
Each of us wages a private battle each day between the grand fantasies we have for ourselves and what actually happens.
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.
I wanted Cathy and Irving to actually say 'I do' and be pronounced husband and wife on Feb. 5, which is my mom's birthday.
Otherwise, my whole career has just been flinging myself at whatever is most overdue first and letting everything else stack up.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Small wastebasket liners, $1.17 ... tall wastebasket liners, $2.29 ... garbage can liners, $3.98 ... I think I just spent $7.44 buying something I'm going to throw away.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I wasn't intending to create a comic strip to begin with. So I think I wasn't aware that when the strip started, there had never been a woman's voice quite like this in the newspaper.
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.