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"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."
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"Your party kicked so much ass!Even though you suck so much! It's like, instead of blood, your heart pumps liquid suck! But thanks for the beer!"
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"Everyone has a sense of humor. If you don't laugh at jokes, you probably laugh at opinions."
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"The real satire starts when I'm shockingly mocked,not mockingly shocked."
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"They are fond of fun and therefore witty, wit being well-bred insolence."
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"Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is."
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"People who are not blessed with the ability to make others laugh compensate for that by saying (or trying to say) things that are profound."
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"We can't all be comedians, some people have to do the laughing."
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"His voice is to entertainment what the kazoo is to classical music."
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"He has got no good red blood in his body," said Sir James."No. Somebody put a drop under a magnifying glass, and it was all semicolons and parentheses," said Mrs. Cadwallader."
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"People who wear G-strings suffer from indecision."
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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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"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."
Experience
"I never thought Cathy would get married in the comic strip. And I also thought I would never get married."
Thought
"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
"I'm more financially successful, but it just means the shopping blunders I make are bigger now."
Success
"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
"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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"Food, love, career, and mothers, the four major guilt groups."
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"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."
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