"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."

Home, Humor, Mom, Ability

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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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"Home is a desk. The amalgamation of a dream. Home is the cats, my books, and my work never done. All the lost things that may one day call to me, the faces of my children who will one day call to me. Maybe we can't draw flesh from reverie nor retrieve a dusty spur, but we can gather the dream itself and bring it back uniquely whole."

Patti Smith, American Musician

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"Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

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"Maybe that's the best part of going away for a vacation-coming home again."

Madeleine L'Engle, American Novelist

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"Everything I'd been longing to get away from, true, but not through destruction. I'd wanted to leave home, but have it stay in place, waiting for me, unchanged, so I could step back into it at will."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

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"You go to work, tape five shows in one day and then go home and play golf for the rest of the week and then start the week all over. I thought if something like that came along, I'd love to do that."

Wink Martindale, American Entertainer

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"My hunch is that probably men are doing more both outside the home and inside the home."

James Levine, American Musician

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"Education, like neurosis, begins at home."

Milton R. Sapirstein, American Psychiatrist

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"I ask myself: Would I have been any worse off if I had stayed home or lived on a farm instead of shock treatments and medication?"

Gene Tierney, American Actress

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"I was studying American politicians who were searching - allegedly - for American communists because it would put them on the front pages of the papers in their home towns."

Robert Vaughn, American Actor

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"When I go home my mother still makes me take out the garbage."

Nomar Garciaparra, American Athlete

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

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"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."

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"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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"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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"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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"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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"I never thought Cathy would get married in the comic strip. And I also thought I would never get married."

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"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."

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

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"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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