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"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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"Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?"
"Parents provide their children with genes as well as an environment, so the fact that talkative parents have kids with good language skills could simply mean that and that the same genes that make parents talkative make children articulate."
"You know you've made it when you've been moulded in miniature plastic. But you know what children do with Barbie dolls - it's a bit scary, actually."
"Having children is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain."
"Still, most of those effects occur in the context of harmless play and it is patently obvious that children are not normally turned into aggressive little monsters by TV or video games, since most children do not become aggressive little monsters."
"I write and direct the Duke University Children's Hospital Benefit every year."
"Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children."
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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."
"Otherwise, my whole career has just been flinging myself at whatever is most overdue first and letting everything else stack up."
"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."
"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 never thought Cathy would get married in the comic strip. And I also thought I would never get married."
"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."
"The specific story line that people have responded to the most has been the horror of bathing suit shopping."
"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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