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"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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"I'm very attached to Paris because I have a base there and am also recording there, but New York is home to me when I'm in the U.S., because it's nice to have a bed to go back to."
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"I'm going to go down swinging... I'm sure as heck not going to go home and say I had a bad tournament."
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"I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework."
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"The warrior may fight for gold or for an immediate gain, or for something to take home for the winter to feed the family. The soldier is part of a more complex society. He's fighting for a group ethic of some sort."
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"Being born in a Christian home does not make you a Christian."
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"The important thing about having lots of things to remember is that you've got to go somewhere afterwards where you can remember them, you see? You've got to stop. You haven't really been anywhere until you've got back home."
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"If you got a good imagination, a lot of confidence and you kind of know what you are saying, then you might be able to do it. I know a lot of colorful characters at home that would make great actors."
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"One person cooking at home cannot pay attention to too many things. If a woman makes three dishes, she will get nervous on the first, the second will suffer and the third will be a disaster."
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"When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters."
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"When everyone goes home, you're stuck with yourself."
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"The biggest change in my life is that I now have to apologize for being thin."
Change
"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."
Life
"I never thought Cathy would get married in the comic strip. And I also thought I would never get married."
Thought
"The specific story line that people have responded to the most has been the horror of bathing suit shopping."
People
"Otherwise, my whole career has just been flinging myself at whatever is most overdue first and letting everything else stack up."
Career
"I'm more financially successful, but it just means the shopping blunders I make are bigger now."
Success
"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."
Woman
"I'd love to see more equal representation of female and male cartoonists on the comics page."
Love
"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."
Woman
"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
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